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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Paying for sex with trafficked or exploited women would become a crime under new laws proposed by the UK government Wednesday.",
"Under proposed laws, it would be illegal to buy sex from a trafficked or exploited woman in the UK.",
"The act of purchasing sex is not currently a criminal offense in England and Wales -- although there are laws against paying for sex in a public place and persistently soliciting prostitutes.",
"Now UK Home Secretary (interior minister) Jacqui Smith says she is proposing the new measures to protect vulnerable women and tackle the demand for prostitution.",
"Britain's interior ministry, known as the Home Office, introduced the new measures Wednesday after a six-month review that looked at what else the government could do to protect women being exploited for sexual gain.",
"\"I want to do everything we can to protect the thousands of vulnerable women coerced, exploited or trafficked into prostitution in our country, and to bring those who take advantage of them to justice,\" Smith said in a statement.",
"Smith said the new measures will shift the focus onto sex buyers because they create demand for prostitution and demand for the trafficking of women for sex.",
"\"There will be no more excuses for those who pay for sex,\" she added.",
"As part of the review, the government looked at the experience of other countries including Sweden -- which has criminalized paying for sex -- and the Netherlands, where brothels are licensed.",
"The government estimates around 80,000 people are involved in prostitution in Britain, with about 4,000 women having been trafficked for sexual exploitation.",
"It says the prostitution market nationwide is worth up to £1 billion ($1.52 billion).",
"Trafficking is the movement of women from one place to another for the purposes of sex.",
"British Authorities have said trafficking usually involves the trafficker promising to bring a woman to Britain for a better life and then forcing her into prostitution.",
"The measures -- which must be approved by Parliament -- would mean that those committing the new offense would be given a criminal record and fined £1,000 ($1,520) -- even if it was a person's first offense and the offender did not know the prostitute was being controlled by a pimp or had been trafficked.",
"Police would also be given powers to close and seal premises suspected of being used for sexual exploitation, such as brothels, which the government said will prevent further exploitation and abuse from taking place.",
"Current law prohibits curb crawling, which involves soliciting prostitutes from a motor vehicle persistently or in a manner that causes annoyance to the neighborhood.",
"It also prohibits \"persistent soliciting,\" which is essentially curb crawling without a car.",
"But representatives of sex workers attacked the plans Wednesday, saying they will force prostitution further underground and make women more vulnerable to violence.",
"\"It's going to really make it more difficult for men to use the sex industry, and it's going to mean that women are going to have to take more risks in order to earn the same money,\" said Cari Mitchell, a spokeswoman for the English Collective of Prostitutes.",
"\"It's also going to drive it underground.",
"It's going to increase the stigma.\"",
"Mitchell said the government's figures are inflated, and that most immigrant women working as prostitutes have not been trafficked and are working independently.",
"The new measures, she said, confuse prostitution with trafficking and take the focus off those women who may be vulnerable.",
"\"Of women who may be trafficked and forced, what they need is to be able to come forward and report to the police without any fear of being deported,\" Mitchell told CNN.",
"The new restrictions on curb crawling won't end the practice, Mitchell said, but simply give prostitutes less time to weigh up any potential dangers before getting in the client's car."
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"UK government: Around 4,000 women trafficked in the UK for sexual exploitation .",
"Interior ministry introduces new proposals to clamp down on sex trade .",
"Minister: Measures will shift the focus onto sex buyers because they create demand .",
"Sex workers representative: Move is counterproductive, will force prostitution underground ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Barack Obama on Tuesday admitted he made a mistake in handling the nomination of Tom Daschle as his health and human services secretary, saying Daschle's tax problems sent a message that the politically powerful are treated differently from average people.",
"President Barack Obama is interviewed by CNN's Anderson Cooper on Tuesday.",
"Daschle, the former Democratic leader in the U.S. Senate, withdrew earlier Tuesday as news that he failed to pay some taxes in the past continued to stir opposition on Capitol Hill.",
"\"I think I screwed up,\" Obama said in a wide-ranging interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper.",
"\"And I take responsibility for it and we're going to make sure we fix it so it doesn't happen again.\"",
"Daschle had apologized Monday for what he said were honest mistakes, calling them an embarrassment.",
"The series of errors included improperly reporting $15,000 in charitable donations, failing to list $80,000 in lobbying income due to what Daschle said was a paperwork error, and not reporting as income a car and driver loaned to him by a friend and business associate.",
"Watch Obama admit mistake » .",
"Daschle recently filed amended tax returns and paid more than $140,000 in back taxes and interest for 2005 to 2007.",
"Those tax issues, as well as questions over whether work he did after his stint in the Senate amounted to lobbying, gave critics ammunition to question Obama's call for a change of culture in Washington.",
"\"Ultimately, I campaigned on changing Washington and bottom-up politics,\" Obama said.",
"\"And I don't want to send a message to the American people that there are two sets of standards -- one for powerful people and one for ordinary folks who are working every day and paying their taxes.\"",
"Watch the full interview with Anderson Cooper » .",
"Obama defended Daschle's original appointment, saying \"nobody was better-equipped to deal both with the substance and policy of health care.\"",
"\"He understands it as well as anybody, but also the politics, which is going to be required to actually get it done,\" Obama said.",
"Earlier, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs insisted Daschle's decision to withdraw was made on his own, not as a result of any prodding from the administration.",
"In a written statement, Daschle acknowledged the political problem he had created for the administration.",
"Still, Obama insisted the mistake was his.",
"Read how CNN analysts assess the situation » .",
"Obama also said he's going to crack down on businesses using taxpayer money to excessively pay executives.",
"He plans a Wednesday announcement of mechanisms to keep that from happening.",
"\"I'm going to be talking about executive compensation and changes we're going to be making there,\" he said.",
"\"We've now learned that people are still getting huge bonuses despite the fact that they're getting taxpayer money, which I think infuriates the public.\"",
"Watch Obama discuss getting tough on executives » .",
"The president also spoke about the struggling economy, the use of the label \"war on terror,\" and lighter topics, including the family dog and his efforts to stop smoking.",
"Thinking about the nation's faltering economy keeps him up at night, Obama said.",
"He also addressed criticism that there is too much spending in the current stimulus package bill written by House Democrats.",
"iReport.com: Was Daschle properly vetted?",
"\"Look, the only measure of my success as president when people look back five years from now or nine years from now is going to be, did I get this economy fixed.",
"I have no interest in promoting a package that doesn't work,\" Obama said.",
"Cooper also asked Obama about reports that he is not using former President Bush's phrase, \"war on terror,\" to refer to the wars in Iraq in Afghanistan.",
"\"Words matter in this situation because one of the ways we're going to win this struggle is through the battle of hearts and minds,\" Obama said.",
"\"I think it is very important for us to recognize that we have a battle or a war against some terrorist organizations, but that those organizations aren't representative of a broader Arab community, Muslim community.\"",
"Watch Obama talk about the phrase \"war on terror\" » .",
"Moving on to lighter topics, the president said the first family hasn't decided what type of dog to get, but will wait until spring.",
"Obama, an intermittent smoker, also said he has not smoked on the White House grounds.",
"\"Sometimes it's hard.",
"But, you know, I'm sticking to it,\" Obama said.",
"iReport.com: 'People should give him some slack' Asked about the greatest lesson he'd learned about the presidency from studying about Abraham Lincoln, Obama said: .",
"\"You know, when I think about Abraham Lincoln, what I'm struck by is the fact that he constantly learned on the job.",
"He got better.",
"You know, he wasn't defensive.",
"He wasn't arrogant about his tasks.",
"He was very systematic in saying, 'I'm going to master the job, and I understand it's going to take some time.' ..."
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"Obama tells CNN's Anderson Cooper: 'I take responsibility for it'\nPresident says message was sent that the politically powerful are treated differently .",
"Daschle apologizes for what he says were honest mistakes involving taxes .",
"Obama also discusses declining economy and fight against terrorist groups ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- A British adventurer has overcome sea sickness to complete his around the world trip relying only on the goodwill of people using social networking site Twitter.",
"Paul Smith poses in New York in a picture posted on his Flickr page.",
"Paul Smith aimed to travel to Campbell Island in New Zealand, the opposite side of the planet to his home in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 30 days.",
"In the end he fell just short -- reaching Stewart Island at the foot of New Zealand's South Island.",
"There was not another boat to the more southerly Campbell Island -- a UNESCO World Heritage site -- until November.",
"During his trip Smith visited the Netherlands, France, Germany and the U.S. -- where he was given a free flight to New Zealand -- and had his photo taken with Hollywood actress Liv Tyler.",
"He also raised more than $7,000 for a water charity.",
"More on his journey . His self-imposed golden rule was that he could only accept offers of travel and accommodation from people who use Twitter, a micro-blogging service that allows people to \"tweet\" what they're up to (or what they're thinking about) in 140 characters or less.",
"Smith was also banned from making any travel plans more than three days in advance and has to leave each location within 48 hours of arriving.",
"In his latest updates, he reveals a battle with sea sickness on the crossing to Stewart Island.",
"\"Oh god, I'm rocking back and forth.",
"Still got motion sickness.",
"Curse you, Stewart Island!",
"\"Yesterday's ferry crossing was calm according to local, but it managed to turn me inside out.\"",
"Smith, who was flying out of New Zealand Tuesday, has more than 11,00 people following his progress on his Twitter page on which he has posted 1,300 updates this month.",
"Comment on Paul Smith's journey ."
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"British man travels around the world using only contacts made on Twitter .",
"Paul Smith traveled to New Zealand from Newcastle-upon-Tyne .",
"He managed to get his photo taken with actress Liv Tyler on the way ."
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"(CNN) -- Let's face it, if you're on holiday in Miami you'll want to be based near the beach, which, fortunately, is where the city's most glamorous hotels are located.",
"South Beach is known for its Art Deco hotels, like The Delano, left.",
"South Beach is known for its distinctive Art Deco hotels, mostly built in the 1920s and 30s and often painted in bright pastel colors.",
"South Beach's Art Deco originals have been protected since the 1970s, and many have since been renovated to the highest specifications.",
"Collins Avenue is home to more than its fair share of boutique hotels.",
"The Delano (1685 Collins Avenue, doubles from $400) dates back to the 1940s and is crowned with streamlined fins that are pure Deco.",
"It has been re-imagined by Ian Schrager, with a white, minimal Philippe Starck-designed interior that is sophisticated and hip.",
"The Delano's Rose Bar is one of the best places in town for a poolside cocktail.",
"The Shore Club (1901 Collins Avenue, doubles from $300) is another Schrager revival of a Deco hotel and, if anything, it's even cooler than The Delano.",
"Rooms are high-tech, welcoming and often occupied by visiting celebrities.",
"The attached sushi restaurant Nobu is top notch and the stylish Skybar, with its four bars and tropical gardens, is one of the city's hottest nightspots.",
"Do you have a favorite hotel or place to stay in Miami?",
"If you've just won the lottery, you'll want to stay at the Setai (2001 Collins Avenue, doubles from $785).",
"Another conversion of an Art Deco hotel, albeit augmented by a 40-storey tower, the Setai adds tasteful Asian influences.",
"Its cool, dark interior is a refreshingly tasteful oasis among the South Beach excess, and is both unashamedly luxurious and frighteningly expensive.",
"Back in the real world, The Standard (40 Island Avenue, Miami Beach, doubles from $250) is a little stranded in its Biscayne Bay locale, but is great value.",
"The real draw is the superb spa, with its infinity pool and open-air mud lounge.",
"But this is no austere health retreat; it's relaxing and fun, and all the better for it.",
"This is Miami after all... A cheaper, quirkier option is Pelican (826 Ocean Drive, doubles from $200).",
"Owned by Italian fashion label Diesel, this is a colorful, kitschy place, with individually themed rooms, such as the ornate and floral 'Power Flower' room.",
"The hotel's Pelican Café has an outstanding wine list and is surprisingly good value.",
"Away from the beach altogether, the Biltmore (1200 Anastasia Avenue, doubles from $310), over in Coral Gables, is an absolute gem.",
"The rooms aren't exceptional but the building is a beauty, modeled on the Giralda bell tower in Seville, with ornate Moorish-inspired touches.",
"Al Capone was a big fan back in the 1920s and these days there's a massive pool, an 18-hole golf course and rumors of resident ghosts... ...................... Miami City Guide: .",
"Where to stay | What to see | Where to be seen | Where to eat | Where to shop .",
"Do you agree with our Miami picks?",
"Send us your comments and suggestions in the \"Sound Off\" box below and we'll print the best ."
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"South Beach is known for its distinctive and stylish Art Deco hotels .",
"Expensive and exclusive, The Setai has an Asian-influenced interior .",
"The Standard is known for its spa, infinity pool and open-air mud lounge .",
"Over in Coral Gables, the stunning Biltmore resembles a Spanish palace ."
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"(CNN) -- Authorities in Kansas are looking for a boy who disappeared about a decade ago, but was not reported missing until a few weeks ago.",
"Adam Herrman has not been seen since 1999, when he was 11 or 12.",
"\"We don't know what happened to Adam Herrman past '99, when he was last seen,\" Butler County Sheriff Craig Murphy said at a news conference in El Dorado.",
"\"Is he alive, is he dead?",
"That one I can't answer because we don't know,\" he added.",
"Adam was 11 or 12 when he was last seen, Murphy said.",
"At the time, he was living in a mobile home park in Towanda, a small town in southern Kansas, with his adoptive parents, Doug and Valerie Herrman.",
"The couple did not report him missing, Murphy said.",
"A few weeks ago, a person notified Sedgwick County Exploited and Missing Children's Unit of a \"concern\" regarding Adam, Murphy said.",
"The agency did not immediately return CNN's phone call seeking additional information.",
"Wichita attorney Warner Eisenbise, who is representing Adam's adoptive parents, said the couple \"really rue the fact that they didn't\" report the boy missing.",
"\"They feel very guilty\" about not doing that, he said in a telephone interview.",
"The couple told him the boy had run away frequently, he said, and they believed him to be either with his biological parents or homeless.",
"Although the Herrmans did not report him missing, \"they were very worried about him,\" he said.",
"Authorities have searched the Pine Ridge Mobile Home Park, where the family had lived, and discovered an \"answer\" to one of their questions, Murphy said, without explaining.",
"\"We did find one of the answers we were looking for, but I am holding that one very tightly,\" he said.",
"Eisenbise said authorities also executed a search warrant on December 15 at the Herrmans' home in Derby, a town just outside of Wichita.",
"They took the couple's computer, he said.",
"Murphy said the couple is cooperating and had not been charged with anything.",
"Citing a relative, the Wichita Eagle reported the Herrmans had taken Adam into foster care and later adopted him.",
"Michelle Ponce of the Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services, which oversees adoption and foster care, said she could not release any details regard Adam's case, and could confirm only that he had been in foster care at some point, but was no longer in foster care in 1999.",
"Adam had been placed in the Herrmans' care when he was about 2, Murphy said in a phone interview.",
"He had been named Irvin Groeninger III when he was born on June 8, 1987, Murphy said, and it was not clear when his name was changed.",
"His biological parents relinquished their rights as parents about two decades ago, and Adam and his siblings were put in different foster homes, CNN affiliate KWCH reported.",
"\"I thought what I was doing for them was in the best interest of the children and evidently it wasn't,\" Irvin Groeninger told KWCH.",
"\"If he was still in my custody this would have never happened.\"",
"Adam's sister, Tiffany Broadfoot, 22, said she last saw her brother about 14 years ago at a birthday party.",
"A year or two later, he sent her a Christmas card, she said.",
"\"And that was the end of my contact with him,\" she told KWCH.",
"\"He had the cutest little round face, little bitty freckles right up here on the tip of his cheek,\" she remembered.",
"\"I'm just awestruck as how something like that could actually happen, and how he could be missing as long as he's been and nobody say anything,\" she said.",
"Murphy said Adam's name appears on a legal document later than 1999.",
"\"We know that he was listed in a legal action as if he was still living at home, and I'm not certain of the date, but it was beyond 1999,\" he told CNN."
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"Sheriff says no trace of Adam Herrman found after 1999 .",
"Parents did not report him missing until recently .",
"Police say they don't know if he is dead or alive .",
"Adam was 11 or 12 in 1999 ."
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"(CNN) -- An elderly American man has been released from a Mexican jail more than two months after the grandson he was traveling with was arrested on child pornography charges, a family member said.",
"Edward Chrisman, left, crosses the Mexican border back into the United States after being freed Saturday.",
"Edward Chrisman, 88, and his grandson had traveled to Algodones, Mexico, for discount dental care, as a part of a growing trend known as medical tourism.",
"Algodones is just across the border from Yuma, Arizona.",
"The grandson, 40-year-old Gary Chrisman Jr., remains in a Mexicali jail awaiting trial, according to his cousin, Tracy Short.",
"Authorities accuse him of offering a woman money to take nude photos of her teenage daughters.",
"Child pornography charges can carry a penalty of up to 12 years in prison, according to officials from the Consulate General Tijuana.",
"In early January, the Chrismans stopped at a convenience store in Mexico and Gary Chrisman went inside to purchase soft drinks.",
"Edward Chrisman waited in the car, Short said.",
"The younger Chrisman had been taking pictures of the area that day and, while in the store, approached a woman about snapping some shots of her teenage daughters.",
"He offered to pay them $25, they agreed, and he took a few pictures of the girls' faces.",
"It was at that point, the family says, that the girls' mother demanded more money from Chrisman and called local authorities alleging that Chrisman had tried taking pornographic pictures of her daughters, after he refused to ante up.",
"Both men were taken into custody at the time, but the police report does not say why the elder Chrisman was arrested.",
"The Chrisman family says the men were set up as a ploy for money.",
"Since early January, the family says, they have paid thousands of dollars to at least three attorneys for legal representation and have reached out to numerous officials and politicians in Mexico and the United States for help.",
"Edward Chrisman, who lives in Arlington, Washington, but was wintering with his grandson in Yuma, Arizona, was released from jail on Saturday and crossed the border back into the United States the same day.",
"The family says his health had been steadily deteriorating while he was behind bars.",
"Traveling abroad for health care is a phenomenon known as medical tourism.",
"Many do it to save money or to get medical care not approved in the United States.",
"Internationally recognized hospitals in Thailand and Singapore can often perform orthopedic and heart procedures at a fraction of the cost.",
"Mexico is a popular choice for dental care.",
"The estimated number of Americans seeking treatment overseas annually varies widely, but starts at a half-million people.",
"CNN's Sara Pratley contributed to this report."
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"U.S. man, 88, was arrested in January along with his 40-year-old grandson .",
"Grandson accused of seeking nude photos of teens; family alleges setup .",
"No word on why 88-year-old was jailed along with grandson .",
"Family members say grandfather's health had deteriorated in jail ."
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"(CNN) -- Germany's much-loved model train manufacturer, Maerklin, has filed for bankruptcy, leaving fans around the world wondering whether it's the last stop for the company's toy business.",
"This Maerklin train has a video in the front so users get a driver's view.",
"Maerklin has been building toy trains for nearly 150 years and its railroads made their way into countries as far away as Australia and New Zealand.",
"The company said it applied for insolvency proceedings Wednesday after talks to secure credit from banks broke down.",
"Despite intensive negotiations, the commercial banks did not extend their lines of credit, Maerklin said.",
"\"It is sad,\" shopper Frank Steen, 39, said at London's famous Hamleys toy store.",
"\"With fewer older brands around, all we're left with is Japanese plastic.\"",
"Although Maerklin generated a turnover of around $165 million in 2008, it struggled to obtain a credit extension beyond January 31, it said.",
"Despite financial difficulties, the company still planned to set up its stall Thursday at the Nuremberg Toy Fair.",
"Railway devotees will have plenty to look forward to after Maerklin boss Dietmar Mundil promised to bring 400 new products to the show."
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"Maerklin toy train firm files for bankruptcy .",
"Company says it failed to secure extension of credit lines from banks .",
"Maerklin generated a turnover of around $165 million in 2008 .",
"Company still plans to attend this week's Nuremberg Toy Fair ."
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"(CNN) -- Nadya Suleman, who gave birth to octuplets in January, brought two of her babies home from the hospital late Tuesday.",
"Nadya Suleman walks outside her new house for a video crew in La Habra, California, on March 10.",
"She brought the infants to her new house in La Habra, California.",
"Members of the media and gawkers crowded the cul-de-sac, as news helicopters hovered overhead.",
"Media swarmed the family's vehicle as it slowly made its way through the crowd, into the home's garage.",
"The babies discharged from the hospital were Noah Angel, known as Baby A, and Isaiah Angel, known as Baby C, according to the Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center.",
"The medical team that delivered the babies identified them by letters of the alphabet.",
"On discharge, Noah weighed 5 pounds, 13 ounces, and Isaiah weighed 5 pounds, the hospital said in a news release.",
"\"Both infants are able to bottle feed, are gaining weight and are able to maintain their body temperature,\" the release said.",
"\"This is a happy moment for everyone -- the family, physicians, nurses and entire NICU (neonatal intensive care unit staff),\" the release quoted neonatologist Mandhir Gupta as saying.",
"\"It is always rewarding whenever a premature infant goes home as a healthy baby.\"",
"Watch as crowd welcomes babies home » .",
"The remaining six babies continue to progress well at the hospital, Kaiser said.",
"All continue gaining weight as they get formula or donated breast milk.",
"Hospital representatives made several home visits before the babies were discharged, to determine whether Suleman could provide safe housing, enough child care support and the supplies needed to care for the first two children, Kaiser said.",
"Until recently, Suleman had been sharing another home with her parents and her other six young children.",
"But that house ended up at risk of foreclosure, and Suleman moved into her own home.",
"Last week, she disputed news reports that her father had bought the new house.",
"\"I earned it. ... No, my father did not purchase this house for me.",
"I did it on my own,\" Suleman told Radar magazine's Web site during a recent video tour of the 2,583-square-foot house.",
"\"It's 1,000-square-footage bigger than the old house,\" she said on the video.",
"\"They [her older children] like it more than Grandma's house.\"",
"Watch Suleman take other children to theme parks .",
"Showing the new house to Radar, Suleman toured the living room, dining room and kitchen, and a den off the kitchen that she said she planned to turn into a nursery.",
"All the cribs will be kept in that room and two babies will share each crib, she said at the time, \"unless one is sick, because they are so strong and healthy right now.",
"... Six are ready to come home.\"",
"Suleman, 33, added that they would come home two at a time.",
"\"Two are little and they need to gain weight, and that's it.",
"There's no medical problem,\" she said.",
"People.com reported that their new home, which was listed for $564,900, has four bedrooms and a large back yard.",
"\"My ultimate goal is not to be a burden on ... taxpayers,\" she told Radar.",
"\"So there have been a couple of offers. ...",
"I selectively picked a couple of opportunities to earn some resources for the kids.\"",
"Suleman gave birth to the octuplets through in-vitro fertilization, fueling controversy.",
"News of her collecting public assistance for some of her children also outraged many taxpayers."
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"NEW: Babies are Noah Angel, known as Baby A, and Isaiah Angel, known as Baby C .",
"NEW: On discharge, Noah weighed 5 pounds, 13 ounces; Isaiah weighed 5 pounds .",
"She plans to turn den in to nursery, with two babies per crib .",
"Suleman says \"my ultimate goal is not to be a burden on ... taxpayers\""
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"(CNN) -- They've sung his praises on social networking pages, calling him a \"hero,\" \"the greatest man of our time,\" \"a legend.\"",
"They've said he deserves to be knighted and should be decorated with medals.",
"They've cried out for his amnesty and have even proposed serving time for him.",
"A Lebanese student in Beirut attends a December rally to support the shoe-throwing Iraqi journalist.",
"The man many hundreds of thousands of Facebook users honor is no other than Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for hurling his shoes at then-U.S. President George W. Bush.",
"The double-whammy size 10 shoe toss, neither of which hit Bush, took place in December at a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq.",
"In many traditional Middle East circles, throwing shoes at someone is considered a grave insult.",
"To do this to an American president surrounded by Secret Service agents, no less, was as shocking to riveted viewers who watched the footage later as it was to the president himself.",
"Watch video about the shoe thrower's sentencing » .",
"\"First of all, it's got to be one of the most weird moments of my presidency,\" Bush said later.",
"\"Here I am getting ready to answer questions from the free press in a democratic Iraq, and a guy stands up and throws his shoe. ...",
"I'm not angry with the system.",
"I believe that a free society is emerging, and a free society is necessary for our own security and peace.\"",
"Expressing their own freedom on Facebook, a worldwide fan base rose up to laud al-Zaidi's actions.",
"They formed hundreds of fan pages and groups, big and small, serious and light.",
"One is even called the \"Shoe-Throwing Appreciation Society.\"",
"Mike Trainor, 28, was watching a football game when a news break brought footage of the incident across his TV screen.",
"\"I thought it was the funniest thing I'd ever seen,\" said Trainor, a Queens, New York, stand-up comedian behind \"Guy Who Threw His Shoes at Bush,\" which has attracted nearly 270,000 fans.",
"The comedian may have created the post for laughs, but he quickly learned how loaded the issue was.",
"\"It grew into this crazy thing,\" in which Bush supporters began to weigh in on message boards calling al-Zaidi supporters \"a threat to America\" and insults in reaction flew, he said.",
"\"It shows people have a lot of passionate feelings about it, that's for sure.\"",
"One message board on his page, titled \"YOU GUYS HATE AMERICA,\" drew 384 posts in reaction.",
"The creator started it with these words: \"seriously you guys are all a**holes.",
"why would you be happy about some freaking foreigner throwing his shoes at the leader of the free world?",
"I don't care if he's dumb he's my president of my wonderful country [sic].\"",
"And interspersed amid the groups of fans were those that spoke out against the al-Zaidi worship.",
"\"That shoe thrower is not a hero,\" attracted 94 members, many of them with Arabic names.",
"One London poster said the shoe thrower \"did nothing but bring shame upon us iraqis [sic],\" and another from Halifax, Nova Scotia added, \"I dont care about bush but this guy was very disrespectful to the Iraqi Prime minister who was standing right next to him [sic].\"",
"But the shoe-thrower fans, at least in the world of Facebook, seem to far outweigh those who decried his actions.",
"\"This site is intended to express the appreciation of those who share the frustration and anger that you expressed when you blew Mr Bush those boot-kisses [sic],\" reads the description on \"Thank you Muntadhar al-Zaidi,\" a nearly 500-member page created by a teacher at the University of Auckland in New Zealand.",
"Protests of the journalist's arrest and now sentence brought Arab and Muslim demonstrators to the streets.",
"But what Facebook has shown is that al-Zaidi's angry expression resonated with those beyond his religion and region.",
"From England and Uruguay to China and Bush's own red, white and blue, supporters have made noise, at least virtually.",
"\"We're talking about a common man, like me and you,\" who was \"tired of years of lies from a self-called 'freedom saver,' \" said Matteo Ferigo of Padova, Italy, the 30-year-old creator behind \"Save Muntadhar al-Zaidi,\" which has 116 members.",
"\"I understand that his act was not so civil, polite or 'politically correct,' but I also understand how Iraqi people can see George Bush and what he represents to them.\"",
"Ari Vais, the creator of the page, \"Free the Iraqi shoe throwing journalist!,\" said his own history taught him the value of free expression.",
"\"I was born in the Soviet Union, where dissent like this was cracked down on severely,\" said Vais, a 39-year-old Queens, New York, musician.",
"\"We came to America when I was a boy because we knew that people should be free.\"",
"What al-Zaidi did was a reflection of the democracy Vais thought Bush intended to spread.",
"\"We were supposed to be liberators, and what America stands for is freedom of self-expression and human rights,\" he said.",
"\"All he did was throw a couple shoes.",
"And he missed! It was political theater and not jail-time stuff.\"",
"But it was serious business.",
"Anyone, no matter where they live, would be tackled by Secret Service and face charges for such an attempted assault on the president.",
"And if al-Zaidi had done this to Saddam Hussein, one has to wonder what would have come of the man who's now celebrated.",
"The shoe throwing, because it was so shocking, proved great fodder for late-night talk shows.",
"Comedians, beyond Trainor, had a field day with this one.",
"It inspired online games for people who wanted to play al-Zaidi.",
"Matt Love of Edmonton, Alberta, in Canada called the Iraqi journalist's move \"an act of great courage\" and said that in showing his disdain for Bush, \"He spoke for many millions of people.\"",
"The 52-year-old retired Washington state department of transportation worker believes everyone can learn from the shoe thrower.",
"Commenting Thursday on several fan pages, including one calling for a Nobel Peace Prize for al-Zaidi, Love suggested that people turn out for Bush's March 17 speech at the TELUS Convention Centre in Calgary.",
"\"Lets [sic] show some solidarity...and lob some loafers,\" he wrote.",
"\"Will the Canadian government lock us up for 3 years?",
"Let's find out.\" Reached later in the day, however, he assured CNN that this was written tongue-in-cheek.",
"\"Let me be clear,\" Love said.",
"\"I won't be throwing shoes at anyone.\""
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"Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at President Bush, gains cult-like following .",
"Hundreds of thousands of Facebook users join groups to praise the Iraqi journalist .",
"Fans extend beyond the Muslim and Arab worlds, politically and comically .",
"But seriousness of his actions leads to three-year prison sentence ."
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"(CNN) -- The only thing Venus Williams treasures more than winning is a decent nap.",
"Venus Williams knocks Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova out of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships on February 17, 2009.",
"Just before a match, when other top tennis players might be psyching themselves up for a three-set onslaught, the elder of the Williams sisters can be found somewhere private, snoozing.",
"\"I'm always sleepy,\" she told CNN in an interview for this month's edition of \"Revealed.\"",
"\"I'm literally taking a nap during the first set and the match before me, so I'm probably the only person that can go to sleep, come out 15 minutes later and start playing.\"",
"Wary of sending the wrong signals to her rivals, the sixth seed confessed to CNN that she prefers to take her naps in private.",
"\"I'm wondering if my competitor is going to see me here, so I try to act like I'm not asleep, but I am asleep, or I try to find a place where I can sleep in and no one will see me,\" she laughs.",
"The lightning-fast speed of Venus' serve is at complete odds with her personality.",
"She is strong, ambitious and determined, but also surprisingly laid-back for someone whose professional career is about playing harder, longer and faster.",
"Watch Venus Williams on \"Revealed.\" ...",
"\"I just always go with the flow,\" she told CNN.",
"\"On the court, that's when I get most intense.",
"In practice, I scream and yell and threaten to throw my racquet but in the match I'm not like that at all.\"",
"Her younger sister, world number one Serena, sounds almost envious of Venus' ability to keep her emotions in check.",
"\"Venus is really, really unusually composed and that's just her style,\" Serena told CNN.",
"\"On the court she's always really focused.",
"She always has this quiet tenacity and she never really shows her emotions which I think is good.\"",
"The youngest of five sisters, Serena says she continues to draw inspiration from her closest sibling.",
"Venus is just 15 months older than Serena.",
"She set the marker for success in 2002 when she became the first of the sisters to become world number one.",
"Serena first took the title in July of the same year and reclaimed it earlier this month.",
"\"She's my bigger sister, she's my older sister, she's a role model for me,\" Serena said.",
"\"I'm always trying to do what she does.",
"If she's going on the right path then I'm going on the right path too.",
"If she's working hard then I want to work hard also.",
"I'm the little sister who wants to be just like the big sister,\" she added.",
"If they once struggled to find the required ruthlessness to eliminate each other from a competition, it is clearly no longer a problem.",
"Of 18 matches they have contested, each sister has won nine.",
"At the time of writing, there is every chance they will meet again this week in the semi-final of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships.",
"They last clashed at the Sony Ericsson Championships in Doha in November 2008 when Venus dispatched Serena in three hard-fought sets before going on to win her first end of season title.",
"Watch Venus take the title .",
"Asked after the match about accusations they don't play as hard against each other as they would normal rivals, Venus replied, \"You have to play hard against a Williams or you are going home quickly.",
"We try our hardest and I think that everyone knows that by the effort level.\"",
"Their mother, Oracene Price, told CNN she keeps her advice on the subject simple.",
"\"I just tell them to remember they are sisters and how love and how to care for one another is more important than anything,\" she said.",
"\"So, this is just a game and eventually it would be over and you will have to live with each other.",
"So, just go out there and do your best and whoever wins, wins.",
"And whoever loses, better luck next time.\"",
"Having said that, Price admits she keeps her distance from whoever comes out second best, in any match.",
"\"They don't want to be talked to, they don't want you telling them anything, they just want to be left alone and that's what I do,\" she told CNN.",
"There was no need for tip-toeing after the second round of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships.",
"Venus made fast work of Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, beating the 17-year-old 6-0, 6-1 in less than one hour.",
"Venus told CNN her ambition this year is to topple Serena to become the world number one.",
"\"I think I am in a great position to do that,\" she said.",
"Watch Venus Williams on Revealed this week at the times below: .",
"ALL TIMES GMT Wednesday, February 18: 0930, 1830 Saturday, February 21: 0830, 1900 Sunday, February 22: 0530, 1830 Monday, February 23: 0400 ."
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"Editor's note: Actor Rainn Wilson plays paper salesman Dwight Schrute in the television comedy \"The Office.\"",
"Rainn Wilson says fellow members of his Baha'i faith are being persecuted in Iran.",
"(CNN) -- Why is Rainn Wilson, \"Dwight\" on \"The Office,\" writing a news commentary for CNN?",
"Good question.",
"It's a bit strange for me, to say the least; a comic character actor best known for playing weirdos with bad haircuts getting all serious to talk about the persecution of the fellow members of his religious faith.",
"Dear readers of CNN, I assure you that what I'm writing about is no joking matter or some hoax perpetrated by a paper-sellin', bear-fearin', Battlestar-Galactica obsessed beet farmer.",
"I am a member of the Baha'i faith.",
"What is that, you ask? Well, long story short, it's an independent world religion that began in the mid-1800s in Iran.",
"Baha'is believe that there is only one God and therefore only one religion.",
"All of the world's divine teachers (Jesus, Muhammad, Buddha, Moses, Abraham, Krishna, etc.)",
"bring essentially the same message -- one of unity, love and knowledge of God or the divine.",
"This constantly updated faith of God, Baha'is believe, has been refreshed for this day and age by our founder, Baha'u'llah.",
"There. Nutshell version.",
"Now, as I mentioned, this all happened in Iran, and needless to say the Muslim authorities did not like the Baha'is very much, accusing them of heresy and apostasy.",
"Tens of thousands were killed in the early years of the faith, and the persecutions have continued off and on for the past 150 years.",
"Why write about all this now? Well, I'm glad you asked.",
"You see there's a 'trial' going on very soon for seven Baha'i national leaders in Iran.",
"They've been accused of all manner of things including being \"spies for Israel,\" \"insulting religious sanctities\" and \"propaganda against the Islamic Republic.\"",
"They've been held for a year in Evin Prison in Tehran without any access to their lawyer (the Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi) and with zero evidence of any of these charges.",
"When a similar thing happened in 1980, the national leadership of the Iranian Baha'i community disappeared.",
"And this was repeated again in 1981.",
"In fact, since 1979, more than 200 Baha'is have been killed, holy places and cemeteries desecrated, homes burned, civil rights taken away and secret lists compiled of Baha'is (and even Muslims who associate with them) by government agencies.",
"It's bad right now for all the peace-loving Baha'is in Iran who want only to practice their religion and follow their beliefs.",
"It's especially bad for these seven.",
"Here's a link to their bios. They're teachers, and engineers, and optometrists and social workers just like us.",
"This thought has become kind of a cliché', but we take our rights for granted here in America.",
"Imagine if a group of people were rounded up and imprisoned and then disappeared not for anything they'd done, but because they wanted to worship differently than the majority.",
"There is a resolution on the situation of the Baha'is in Iran being sent to Congress.",
"Please ask your representatives to support it.",
"And ask them to speak out about this terrible situation.",
"Thanks for reading.",
"Now back to bears, paper and beets!",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Rainn Wilson."
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"He says the faith has been persecuted on and off for 150 years .",
"Seven Baha'i leaders are going on trial in Iran on a variety of charges, he says .",
"Wilson: Ask your congressman to support a resolution on the Baha'is ."
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"JAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- The death toll from a flash flood in Indonesia's capital grew to 98 people on Sunday as rescuers widened their search for more than 130 other people in the aftermath.",
"Members of a search and rescue team look for bodies near Jakarta.",
"The nation's health ministry said 62 women, 31 men and three students had been killed.",
"Of those, 12 bodies remained unidentified, ministry spokesman Rustam Pakaya said.",
"Another 13 people were missing.",
"The search for the missing will be called off Sunday night, he said.",
"The flood started Friday morning after heavy rains caused waters to smash through a dam and rush into Jakarta.",
"The breach unleashed a torrent of water that plowed into hundreds of homes in what some survivors described as a suburban \"tsunami.\"",
"About 1,500 volunteers -- mostly students from two flooded universities in Jakarta -- are assisting in the search and rescue effort, said Mardjito, a social affairs ministry official who, like many Indonesians, goes by one name.",
"He said rescuers started using heavy machinery to lift debris.",
"Still, the death toll is expected to rise.",
"At least 50 people were injured and nearly 1,500 have been displaced.",
"Mardjito said a camp for survivors so far has adequate supplies as members of political parties continue to send food, blankets, flashlights and other items amid a major election year.",
"Sleeping residents were taken by surprise by the powerful flash flood as it crashed through the crowded Cirendeu district near Jakarta early Friday.",
"Watch scenes of the flood devastation » .",
"Drenched and shivering survivors were taking refuge on the rooftops of their homes as rescuers in rubber boats were struggling to reach them, said social affairs ministry official Mardjito.",
"Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, currently on the campaign trail ahead of the elections later this year, has said he had ordered senior ministers to visit the scene of the disaster.",
"\"On behalf of the government, I express my condolences to the families of the dead victims and may their souls be accepted by God almighty,\" he said, according to the official Antara news agency.",
"The rain obliterated a 255-meter-long section of the dam, releasing a wall of water from a 20-hectare lake that some survivors said reminded them of the tsunami that hit Indonesia in 2004.",
"\"They said they had heard loud rumbling sounds like during a powerful earthquake.",
"They later found out that the sounds came from the water rushing out from the dam's lake,\" according to Antara.",
"Floods from heavy rains are an annual occurrence in and around Jakarta, a low-lying city on the northern coast of Java island, where poor infrastructure often results in polluted canals and rivers overflowing their banks and spilling into thousands of homes.",
"In 2007, 38 people were killed and 430,000 forced from their homes when storm water 3 meters deep in some places swamped 75 percent of the capital, which is home to about 9 million people.",
"With poor sanitation and a hot and humid climate, the risk of water-borne diseases is usually a major concern following floods in the city, where mosquito-transmitted malaria is also a threat.",
"CNN's Andy Saputra contributed to this report."
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"Flood began after heavy rains caused waters to smash through a dam .",
"Survivors say rumbling of waters sounded like an earthquake .",
"Rescuers are having difficulties reaching people because of mud ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- The \"crime scene cookies\", \"baaji custard\" and \"sponge shafts\" depicted in Oliver Beale's letter of complaint to Virgin Atlantic struck a chord worldwide.",
"Mean cuisine?",
"Airline industry experts insist standards of in-flight food are improving.",
"The missive he sent to Virgin chairman Sir Richard Branson about a meal he received on board a Virgin flight from Mumbai to London in December spread across the web and email with a vengeance.",
"Not only was this a complaint letter par excellence, but it hit upon one of the most emotive subjects of long-haul air travel: the in-flight meal.",
"Read the letter here.",
"\"Food gets everybody going, whether they are sitting at the back end or the front end of the plane,\" says Peter Miller, marketing director at Skytrax, a UK-based aviation research organization.",
"\"Apart from the sheer fact you might be hungry, it is there to alleviate the boredom.",
"Because of that people tend to focus on it more.\"",
"But the criticism passengers target at airline food is not always warranted, Miller argues.",
"Skytrax has been tracking airline service for a decade and every year it ranks airlines according to catering in economy, business and first class.",
"Miller acknowledges that there have been cut backs on catering across short-haul flights and a decline in spending on food in long-haul economy.",
"But Skytrax's research has also revealed a general improvement in standards over the last five years.",
"\"We are actually strong supporters of the overall quality that is served up across most airlines in most parts of the world,\" says Miller.",
"Standards have improved firstly as a result of greater competition between airline catering companies, says Miller.",
"What do you think? Are in-flight meals getting better or worse?",
"What was your worse meal?",
"Sound off below. Austrian catering company DO & CO has transformed the food served onboard Austrian Airlines and Turkish Airlines flights.",
"Skytrax reported a 35 percent increase in customer satisfaction for Turkish Airlines since DO & CO was hired in 2007.",
"\"In the last 15-20 years, the industry has focused on lean production.",
"But we believe [airline catering] is not the job of a car manufacturer,\" says Attila Dogudan, CEO of DO & CO. Good quality airline food not only depends on the quality of raw ingredients, he says, but also the intangible elements of good cuisine.",
"\"If you have chefs doing 3,000 filets on the grill, after 300 they lose the passion,\" says Dogudan.",
"To inspire enthusiasm in its kitchens, DO & CO says it employs an unusually high ratio of chefs to work on a greater variety of dishes.",
"They say they also insist on training cabin staff in food service; they replace the dreaded disposable food trays with crockery; and give passengers menus explaining where their fresh, local ingredients come from.",
"Airlines also use food as a marketing tool and improve standards to attract premium customers.",
"Austrian Airlines has won the Skytrax award for Best Business Class Catering for the last two years.",
"As Michael Braun, spokesman at Austrian Airlines says, \"the current situation in the airline industry is tough and costs have to be cut.",
"But the competition is also very tough, so we need something that makes us unique compared to other airlines.\"",
"And for Austrian Airlines, one unique selling point is its food.",
"There is an on-board chef on every Austrian Airlines flight who puts the crucial finishing touches on premium-class meals.",
"The airline also offers a \"Vienna coffee house in the air\" and one quarter of flight attendants are trained sommeliers to guide passengers through the extensive wine list.",
"Airlines worldwide also hire celebrity chefs to add prestige to their culinary efforts.",
"British chef, Gordon Ramsay is one of Singapore Airline's \"Culinary Panel\"; Juan Amador works with Lufthansa; and United Airlines enlisted the services of U.S. chef Charlie Trotter to inspire its in-flight menu.",
"Chefs help airlines design meals that perform at high altitude.",
"As Michelle Bernstein, Delta's celebrity chef has said, palates weaken in pressurized air cabins, which means dishes need to be made a more flavorful and seasoned than they would be on the ground.",
"Miller at SkyTrax is skeptical about the true benefits a celebrity chef can bring to onboard catering.",
"After all, Gordon Ramsay isn't actually in the cabin sautéing the potatoes.",
"But he does acknowledge that some chefs have influenced a new style of in-flight cuisine.",
"Chef Neil Perry, hired by Qantas in 2003, initiated a move to healthy eating in first and business class.",
"His work has since influenced standards across catering in all classes.",
"Qantas won the Skytrax award for Best Economy Class Catering in 2008 partly as a result of simple enhancements such as the availability of fresh fruit between meals and from the self-serve bar in economy on its A380 aircraft.",
"But as airlines grapple with a deepening recession, can passengers expect treats to vanish from food trays?",
"Across short-haul flights, making cuts is an \"easier game,\" says Miller.",
"Passengers notice it far less if an airline switches a sandwich for a packet of biscuits and a plastic cup of coffee, he says.",
"But on long-haul flights, airlines are restrained in what they can cut.",
"Miller: \"People measure the standard of their flight by the quality of the food or the size of the portion they get.",
"If a meal is cut back too severely they are going to walk away.\"",
"How important is food for you on flights?",
"Is it good enough? Sound off below."
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"Industry experts say quality is improving despite some budget cutbacks .",
"Airline food is back in focus after a six-page rant from a Virgin passenger .",
"The complaint letter referred to the passenger's \"culinary journey of hell\""
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- John and Elizabeth Calvert enjoyed the good life on Hilton Head Island in South Carolina, friends said, but they were growing more and more suspicious of the way their business books were being handled.",
"Things weren't adding up.",
"Money appeared to be missing.",
"John and Elizabeth Calvert are featured on missing persons posters on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.",
"So they scheduled a meeting with accountant Dennis Ray Gerwing to address their concerns, recalled one close friend, Nancy Cappelmann.",
"The Calverts said they were meeting with Gerwing at his offices in the upscale resort community at 6 p.m. last March 3, she added.",
"It would be the last time anyone would see or hear from the couple.",
"The Calverts lived part-time on their yacht, docked at the island's Harbor Town Yacht Basin, the same marina where they managed boat slips.",
"They spent the rest of the year in Savannah, Georgia, and also had a home in Atlanta.",
"They were an active, affluent couple in their mid-40s, and their absence was quickly noticed.",
"On the evening of March 3, 2008, the evening they were to meet with their accountant, both of the Calverts' phones were turned off.",
"Family members said it was very unusual for either John or Elizabeth Calvert to shut off their cell phones.",
"Watch an update on the case » .",
"Family and friends called police and reported the Calverts missing on March 4, after they missed appointments and still couldn't be reached.",
"\"I was supposed to meet John that night and he is never late, so when 20 minutes went by, I got worried and called his cell, but it went straight to voicemail, like it was turned off,\" Cappelmann said.",
"She was a good friend of the couple's and worked at one of their harbor businesses.",
"Police and search teams scoured the island.",
"Divers and dogs searched the harbor and found nothing.",
"The Calverts' small airplane was still at the island's airport and provided no clues.",
"Their 2006 Mercedes Benz was found parked at a hotel in Palmetto Dunes, a gated community six miles from where the Calverts' yacht was docked.",
"The Mercedes also contained no forensic clues.",
"In reconstructing the Calverts' last days, investigators concluded that Gerwing was worth a deeper look.",
"They now say they believe the 54-year-old accountant was the last person to see the Calverts alive.",
"Gerwing ran the management company that kept the books on the Calverts' four businesses on Hilton Head Island.",
"Authorities were already looking into possible financial improprieties involving the company, The Club Group.",
"They named Gerwing as a person of interest in the case about a week after the couple disappeared.",
"An internal audit later revealed that Gerwing had embezzled $2.1 million from the Calverts and others, police said.",
"Gerwing committed suicide within hours of learning he was a person of interest, slashing his neck and legs with a steak knife, authorities said.",
"He also left behind suicide notes with vague references to the Calvert case, said Beaufort County Sheriff P.J.",
"Tanner. Tanner said the notes indicated some acknowledgement of responsibility for his actions, but didn't say specifically what those actions might have been.",
"Police also gathered circumstantial evidence that seemed to point to Gerwing, including drop cloths large enough to use to wrap bodies and latex gloves purchased on the day the Calverts disappeared.",
"In addition, police learned that Gerwing's cell phone had been turned off for 12 hours after he was scheduled to meet with the Calverts.",
"If Gerwing were alive, Tanner said, police wouldn't have enough corroborating evidence to name him a suspect and arrest him.",
"Police executed search warrants on Gerwing's office, home and vehicles and found soil in Gerwing's kitchen.",
"Investigators hope analysis of the dirt might provide clues to the origin of the dirt and a new location to continue searching for John and Elizabeth Calvert.",
"Friends and family are offering a $65,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person or persons responsible for the Calverts' disappearance.",
"Police urge anyone with information about John and Elizabeth Calvert to call the tip line at (843) 524-2777.",
"Police also are seeking help from anyone who saw the Calverts' 2006 Mercedes Benz E320, Georgia Tech license plate GT821B on or about March 3, 2008."
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"A $65,000 reward is offered ."
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"(CNN) -- Kellee Santiago wants to tap into the kinder, gentler side of gaming.",
"The player takes flight in \"Cloud,\" a video game distributed by thatgamecompany.",
"The president and co-founder of thatgamecompany is finding success in the video game industry with titles like \"Flower,\" \"Flow\" and \"Cloud.\"",
"The mellow interactive experiences are definitely different from the more violent \"spray-and-slay\" video games on the market and are designed to encourage emotion, innovation and creativity.",
"In \"Flower,\" the player journeys through an imaginary landscape where they can blow breezes, collect flower petals and enjoy the colorful landscape of what Santiago says is a \"video game version of a poem.\"",
"Such creativity seems to be in perfect harmony with the 30-year-old video game developer, who has a background in the performing arts.",
"A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Santiago worked with incorporating digital and interactive media with live performance before she discovered another passion.",
"It was while completing a master's in fine arts at the Interactive Media program at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts that Santiago realized she could marry her love of the arts with video game creation.",
"\"That attraction I had to working on original theater works was very similar,\" she said.",
"\"I had grown up with video games; I was definitely a gamer all my life, and I had just never thought about it as a creative medium.",
"\"As soon as I did, it was just really exciting, because I saw this huge, untapped potential and a lot of things that hadn't been done before,\" she added.",
"\"That excited me.\" While at USC, she worked on a student project called \"Cloud,\" a downloadable PC game, which only a few months after release online had been played by 350,000 people.",
"\"In comparison to every single play I probably ever worked on in combination never saw that large an audience,\" said Santiago, whose company released \"Cloud\" as one of its games.",
"\"That was really exciting.\"",
"Santiago is returning to her alma mater Monday as a speaker for TEDx USC, an independently organized TED event, which has CNN.com as one of its supporters.",
"TED stands for technology, entertainment and design and began 25 years ago as a conference to bring together some of the world's greatest minds.",
"Krisztina \"Z\" Holly is vice provost and executive director of the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation as well as the curator of TEDx USC.",
"She said USC is an ideal location for the event, which has a theme of \"Ideas Empowered,\" because of its diverse, entrepreneurial and innovative environment.",
"\"It's a great opportunity to bring together leading minds both from on-campus and off-campus to share ideas, to hear new ideas and be inspired to come up with their own ideas to make a real impact,\" she said.",
"Making an impact is exactly what Santiago had in mind when she and fellow USC graduate Jenova Chen launched thatgamecompany.",
"The company, though small and independent, has received many positive reviews of its games and last year was honored as one of the \"20 Breakthrough Developers\" of the year by Gamasutra.",
"Two of its games have been released on the Sony PlayStation 3 platform.",
"Although the gaming industry is mostly dominated by men, Santiago said, she has always been treated as an equal among her peers.",
"And although the main demographic for video games is young men, Santiago said, there is another audience.",
"\"The average gamer now is 35 years old,\" she said.",
"\"Because the audiences are maturing and simultaneously we have a generation of people who've grown up with games who are entering the industry, it's sort of now our turn to create.\"",
"Scott Steinberg, publisher for Digitaltrends.com and author of \"Get Rich Playing Games,\" said Santiago is one of several women making a splash in the world of gaming.",
"Steinberg said Santiago, who is also an invited speaker at the Game Developers Conference this week in San Francisco, California, has achieved a level of visibility because of the quality of her work and the fact that she is a great game designer.",
"\"These are games that push boundaries that appeal to folks of all ages, interests and genders,\" he said.",
"Santiago's games stand out, he said, because they differ so greatly from what many think of when they think video games.",
"\"That's part of what makes them so appealing is the fact that the offer something so different,\" he said.",
"\"They are unique, something audiences haven't seen before.",
"A lot of them actually border on being virtual art experiences more so than video games.",
"\"The nice part about it is, they can be consumed at a very leisurely pace; they can be consumed in bite-sized sessions,\" Steinberg added.",
"\"These are the types of titles that we need as an industry to help broaden our horizons.\"",
"Santiago remembers her first experience playing video games on an arcade version of \"Super Mario Bros.\" that she and her brother tackled while her mother shopped at the supermarket.",
"And although she says she doesn't think it's dangerous for children to play violent video games, Santiago does see danger in doing so without having recognition of the violence.",
"From her games, she says, she wants players to take away the feeling that, like with any communicative medium, there is a relationship with a game.",
"\"One of the questions we always get is, are we always going to make emotional games,\" Santiago said.",
"\"We are saying all games are emotional.\""
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"Santiago approaches games as art .",
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"ROME, Italy (CNN) -- When Anna Elisa Fattori arrives at work the first thing she does is to take off her clothes.",
"All of them. For Fattori is a professional nude model working at Rome's art academy.",
"Anna Elisa Fattori: \"You are trying to give inspiration to the students.\"",
"\"It is a tough job!\" she tells me just before beginning to pose for a group of students, eager to paint her gracious figure.",
"There is something striking about her bright green eyes and wavy red hair.",
"\"It doesn't seem to be hard, but you know, try it!",
"Put yourself in front of the mirror and then stay for a long time in a pose.",
"You start: 'Oh my back, oh something is strange here...'\" she says, mimicking pain on her lower back.",
"Fattori is one of about 300 people in Italy who do this job, but only about 50 of them have full-time contracts.",
"She makes the equivalent of about $1,500 each month, but only works three months per year.",
"And that is why she and others recently went on strike, demanding a full-time wage for work they say not everyone can do.",
"\"It is not easy because you are naked, so you have to be very comfortable with your body and have a nice relationship with everybody,\" she says as the students look on, \"but not too open and not too close.",
"You are trying to give inspiration to the students.",
"If we lose these artistic roots that are very important to Italy then we lose a big part of our identity.\"",
"Italian Renaissance art is filled with naked men and women: Think of Michelangelo's David or Botticelli's Venus.",
"But back then artists mostly used prostitutes and lovers as models and muses, often with the complicity of priests who wanted the walls of their churches painted by famous names.",
"\"Priests allowed prostitutes to use churches,\" explains Enrico Bruschini, one of Rome's best known art historians.",
"\"Officially it was to convert them, but the practical reason was to have the artist at the church.\"",
"Bruschini says that the Saint Augustine church, a stone's throw from Piazza Navona, was a famous gathering point in Rome for Renaissance artists looking for \"inspiration.\"",
"Back then though professional modeling did not exist, and most would agree that the art didn't really suffer from its absence.",
"So if Botticelli and Raphael could do without professional models, what is the big deal now?",
"\"It all started with the rise of art schools in the 19th and 20th centuries\" says Fattori.",
"\"During the Renaissance you just thought that a prostitute can be a model or even a lover.",
"But now we are here, so we need to move ahead.\"",
"Art students hoping to become the next Michelangelo agree.",
"\"I think a person should have talent,\" argues Anastasia Kurakina, a first year student from Russia.",
"\"Because you, for example, you couldn't [model]...",
"I don't know you, but Anna Elisa has talent.\"",
"Anastasia is right, I certainly couldn't do it -- but unbeknownst to me she used me as a model while I was interviewing Fattori.",
"Thankfully I was fully dressed, so all she drew was my head.",
"And she didn't to a bad job at that. E-mail to a friend ."
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"Around 300 people do the job, but only about 50 of them are full-time .",
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"(CNN) -- As the first president-elect with a Facebook page and a YouTube channel, Barack Obama is poised to use the Internet to communicate directly with Americans in a way unknown to previous presidents.",
"Since the election, President-elect Barack Obama has posted weekly video addresses on YouTube.",
"Judging by Obama's savvy use of social-networking sites during his campaign and the interactive nature of his transition team's Web site, Americans can expect a president who bypasses the traditional media's filters while reaching out to citizens for input, observers say.",
"\"The rebooting of our democracy has begun,\" said Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum and the techPresident blog.",
"\"[Obama] has the potential to transform the relationship between the American public and their democracy.\"",
"During the presidential race, Obama's campaign won praise for its innovative use of social-networking sites, including Facebook, MySpace and MyBarackObama.com, to announce events, rally volunteers and raise money.",
"Facebook has more than 150 million active users, and the average user has 100 friends on the site, according to the company.",
"iReport.com: Your chance to ask President-elect Obama a question .",
"Obama has more than 1 million MySpace \"friends\" and more than 3.7 million \"supporters\" on his official Facebook page -- some 700,000 more than when he was elected in November.",
"His campaign also has a database of almost 13 million supporters and their e-mail addresses.",
"Transition officials hope to transform Obama's vast Web operation and electronic list of supporters into a 21st-century tool to help accomplish his goals as president.",
"They even have a name for this ambitious effort: Obama 2.0.",
"\"Obama has invented an alternative media model,\" said CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider.",
"\"In the old model, the president talks to the people on television [and] the people talk back in polls.",
"In the new model, communication is online, and two-way.\"",
"Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter didn't exist when George W. Bush took office eight years ago.",
"But since last November's election, Obama has wasted no time embracing these online communication portals.",
"In recent weeks he has taped weekly video addresses and posted them to YouTube, where most have been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.",
"Obama's staffers also have stopped posting information to social-networking sites since the election, preferring to reach out to constituents through YouTube and Change.gov, the official site of the president-elect's transition team.",
"Visitors to Change.gov can read a frequently updated blog, post their ideas on issues facing the country, and rate others' ideas.",
"Top-rated ideas will be gathered into a briefing book and given to Obama after he takes office.",
"\"They want information going not just from them to the voters, but from the voters back to them,\" Democratic strategist Steve McMahon said Wednesday on CNN's \"The Situation Room.\"",
"\"Thirteen million people pushing a button, sending an e-mail to their elected representatives, making a phone call, taking action, is a powerful, powerful lobbying tool.\"",
"\"It's a very smart use of the Internet, to get people to offer ideas,\" said David All, a Republican Internet strategist.",
"All hopes that Obama and his staff take a similar approach to WhiteHouse.gov, the president's official Web site.",
"The current WhiteHouse.gov site, operated by the Bush administration, contains few interactive features.",
"A statement on the president-elect's transition site says that Obama hopes to \"use cutting-edge technologies to create a new level of transparency, accountability, and participation for America's citizens.\"",
"It's fitting, then, that Obama's inauguration next week could be one of the most watched video events in Internet history.",
"Rasiej expects that hordes of users will be watching online when Obama takes the oath of office, visiting WhiteHouse.gov and refreshing their browsers to capture the moment the site switches to proclaim Obama, not George W. Bush, as president.",
"As president, Obama will likely not just rely on WhiteHouse.gov but use multiple Internet sites and technological tools to build grass-roots support for his agenda, observers say.",
"\"[Obama] is using the tools that are available to him today,\" All told CNN.",
"\"The next president will be using some of the same tools, and also some tools that haven't been invented yet.\""
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"(CNN) -- An Australian pilot landed a company plane in the ocean off Darwin on Friday, in a water landing that prompted comparisons to last month's landing of a US Airways jet in New York's Hudson River.",
"The Australian pilot has been compared to U.S. hero Chesley B.",
"\"Sully\" Sullenberger, pictured above.",
"The Australian pilot also encountered problems shortly after takeoff.",
"The twin-propeller plane was carrying the pilot and five passengers when it went down shortly after leaving Darwin International Airport, said Neville Blyth, a senior transport safety investigator with the Australian Transport Safety Bureau.",
"All those aboard were unhurt and managed to walk to shore, he said.",
"Pictures showed the men from the plane soaked and carrying bags and equipment as they walked through the water.",
"\"It's essentially a good story,\" Blyth said.",
"The ATSB is deciding whether to investigate, he said, and the cause of the incident is still unknown.",
"The Piper Chieftain plane was on its way to the town of Maningrida, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) east of Darwin, according to its owner, Australian information technology company CSG.",
"Watch the plane ditch in Darwin Harbor » .",
"\"We would like to congratulate the pilot following all emergency landing and evacuation procedures and his very professional handling of the situation,\" a CSG statement said.",
"Darwin is in Australia's Northern Territory, on the coast of the Timor Sea.",
"The city's airport is near the water.",
"The plane's trajectory took it over the water, giving the pilot limited opportunities to ditch the plane on land, Blyth said.",
"He said the ocean was a safer option for landing than the beach, where the firmness of the sand was unknown.",
"\"Personally, I think the decision was appropriate,\" Blyth said.",
"Australian media dubbed the captain of the Darwin plane \"Sully Lite,\" comparing him to the captain of the US Airways Airbus jet that landed safely in the Hudson.",
"Pilot Chesley B.",
"\"Sully\" Sullenberger was hailed as a hero for landing the plane safely and ensuring that all 155 people on board survived.",
"Asked about the comparisons, Blyth said the connection was tenuous.",
"\"The correlation for a water landing is as close as it gets,\" he said."
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"(Budget Travel) -- Thanks to a vibrant design culture and growing tourism industry, Spain now has some of the best boutique hotels on the continent -- including a recent wave of hotel chains that's making chic accommodations affordable.",
"The real estate boom has been a key factor.",
"Spying the potential, many entrepreneurs snapped up 19th-century residential buildings and converted them.",
"Gat, a trailblazer, operates two hotels in Barcelona's Raval, a multicultural neighborhood just off Las Ramblas.",
"Both feature abstract art, acid green walls, and stylishly minimalist furniture.",
"Book weeks in advance for the Xino (more appealing than sister hotel, the Raval).",
"All its rooms have private baths, and you can admire the city skyline from the rooftop terrace (doubles from €70 ($110)).",
"The Room Mate chain is multiplying rapidly, with branches in Granada, Madrid, Malaga, Oviedo, Salamanca, Valencia and counting.",
"(It first caught our attention last year.)",
"But don't think chain-like conformity.",
"Each property, named after an imagined roommate, has its own personality, as interpreted by a crew of hot young interior designers.",
"In Madrid, book Room Mate Alicia, a cultured, original, and slightly edgy creature, according to the owners.",
"Near major museums, the hotel's light-filled, airy rooms are stylish without going overboard on showy design elements.",
"Ask for one that looks out over Santa Ana, the city's hottest 'hood (doubles from €100 ($157)).",
"Hot is regularly used to describe Madrid these days -- and not just in reference to the climate.",
"Finally stealing some of the limelight from Barcelona, Spain's capital is going through a renaissance in food, design and counterculture.",
"Visiting creative types head for fashionable Chueca and check in to Colors Host, decorated in a chromatic riot of shades.",
"Book rooms 1, 2, 10 or 11 for an enclosed balcony overlooking Calle Fuencarral (doubles from €45 euros ($71)).",
"At the other end of the spectrum, the Analina Rooms offers tastefully modernist brown-and-white interiors and breakfast next door at Maestro Churrero, a café famous for the quintessential Spanish snack, chocolate con churros (doubles from €65 ($102)).",
"Get the best travel deals and tips emailed to you FREE - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Newsweek Budget Travel, Inc., all rights reserved."
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"Room Mate has branches in a handful of Spanish cities .",
"In Madrid, Analina Rooms offers tastefully modernist brown-and-white interiors ."
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"(CNN) -- Normally, \"hot spot\" isn't the first phrase that comes to mind when talking about Saskatchewan, Canada.",
"A relocation service company president said he is moving more people to Saskatchewan than ever before.",
"But with most of Canada suffering from devastating job losses, this cold province is becoming exactly that.",
"It's an asterisk to the entire country when it comes to the economic climate, and Premier Brad Wall is shouting it as loud as he can.",
"\"It's a great time to come to Saskatchewan,\" said Wall, who even called the Toronto Star newspaper to tout his province's economic success and let Ontarians know there were jobs for the taking.",
"\"For those who are losing their jobs, we need them to know we have thousands of jobs open right now in both the private and public sector,\" Wall said.",
"\"We have a powerful story to tell, a story of success and that's something we want to share with those who are struggling.\"",
"Wall's province is one of the exceptions to the unemployment increases battering provinces across Canada.",
"Saskatchewan's unemployment rate fell to 4.1 percent in January from 4.2 percent in December, making it the only province recording a decline.",
"In Ontario and the city of Toronto, unemployment rates rose to 7.2 percent and 8.5 percent respectively.",
"To the west, British Columbia shed 68,000 full-time jobs in January.",
"More Saskatchewan jobs should be on the way.",
"To stave off any possible recession, Wall announced a $500 million infrastructure \"booster shot\" to help keep the economy strong.",
"Learn more about different towns in Saskatchewan » .",
"\"All across the country, industries are getting quite ill,\" Wall said.",
"\"We aren't immune to it. We see some impacts in terms of layoffs and new vehicle purchases slowing off, and so we want to be proactive in staying ahead of the curve.\"",
"On Tuesday, the Conference Board of Canada released a report that said Saskatchewan will likely continue to lead the nation in economic growth in 2009 because of the infrastructure investment and tax reductions.",
"The province has also been reaping the benefits of an influx from nearby Alberta.",
"When the government in Alberta decided to raise the oil royalty rates, oil exploration and expedition companies decided to move their operations to Saskatchewan in hopes of making more money.",
"With the province's growing opportunities, David Montgomery, president of Calgary's Qwest Haven Relocation Services, said he is moving more people to Saskatchewan each day.",
"\"Alberta has always been the gravy train of oil,\" said Montgomery, who is also a former resident of Regina, the capitol and second-largest city in Saskatchewan.",
"\"But with the new royalties, oil companies are saying 'Why stay here and make less when the opportunities right next door are even better?'",
"Many other companies may start to follow suit.\"",
"Montgomery said people looking to move have said that cheaper land and insurance prices are among the other reasons they are headed to Saskatchewan.",
"\"There, government insurance is cheaper than anywhere else in the country and it comes with your license plates,\" he said.",
"\"With the amount of jobs, cheaper opportunities and great way of life, the government there has made it very attractive to move there.\"",
"That means more business for Wall's province and more jobs coming to the area.",
"Not that there's a shortage of jobs.",
"On Tuesday night there were nearly 6,000 private- and public-sector jobs on the Web site Saskjobs.ca.",
"A constant stream of revenue from oil production and exports also buoys the economy in the province.",
"Saskatchewan falls just behind Alberta, as the largest oil exporter in Canada, and Wall's province sends more oil to the United States than Kuwait.",
"Wall said the province is the leader in uranium production and produces a third of the world's potash.",
"The province continues to keep ahead of the curve, Wall said, finding ways to diversify its resources and embark on ambitious green projects and new oil projects.",
"The province is working with Montana on a $212 million climate change initiative that would create the first major greenhouse gas storage project in North America.",
"The carbon dioxide from coal-fueled power plants would be stored in the ground in Montana and later be withdrawn for use in oil production.",
"Wall also said what may be the largest discovery of sweet, light crude oil in the southeast part of the province means it could have even more oil to work with.",
"The Bakken Formation could potentially have 413 billion barrels of oil, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.",
"That would be another huge untapped revenue gold mine.",
"Despite the growth of nearly all sectors across the board, Wall cautioned that it is possible his province may see economic stress, just later in the game than other places.",
"\"We need to be circumspect and prudent about promoting our province,\" he said.",
"\"We are not immune; we do see the impacts.",
"It isn't some sort of panacea or answer to economic questions that don't exist elsewhere.",
"We are a bit of an asterisk that says there is some stress, but it's relatively calm here.\"",
"Wall encouraged people not to count out a move to the province based on stereotypes that it is \"only winter here,\" and \"all of the land is just rolling hills.\"",
"\"'It's a beautiful, big place where life is great and right now there's also opportunity,\" he said.",
"\"I'm very, very biased, but I can't imagine a place I'd rather be, especially with what's going on economically around the world.\""
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"Province helped by infrastructure investment, oil production .",
"Premier: We are \"a story of success\" that wants to help those struggling .",
"Relocation services business sees more people looking to move to province ."
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"LINKENHOLT, England (CNN) -- Hidden away in the hills of Hampshire lies the village of Linkenholt.",
"This idyllic community, home to just 50 people comes complete with grand Edwardian manor house, cricket pavilion and grounds, blacksmith's forge, rectory, shooting grounds, 22 houses and grade 2 listed cottages.",
"The current owner has ensured that houses are not sold off in the near future.",
"It's all one could ever want from a quintessential English village, and now it is on sale for $33 million.",
"Once owned by English cricketer Herbert Blagrave, the estate was left to his own charitable trust which has now put the entire village -- church not included -- up for sale.",
"\"That,\" joked local estate agent Tim Sherston, \"is owned by God.\"",
"In times of financial downturn and falling house prices, the decision to sell up is curious.",
"The trust says though it wants to free up the capital tied up in the estate so it can give more to charity on an annual basis.",
"Sherston maintains that Linkenholt is not only a rare opportunity; it is a sound buy.",
"\"Big time investors will look upon it as a safe haven to place their money because in five years you're going to see a great deal of appreciation here, so this is perfect.\"",
"The new owner could also take away a significant income from the rent of the houses.",
"Watch as village goes on sale » .",
"Likely buyers are private individuals interested either in farming or the shoot, regarded as one of the finest in the south of England, according to Sherston.",
"There has also been some foreign interest though he adds \"the village is run very much as it has been for the last 200 to 300 years and it is the trustees' hope that the new owner will continue to run it in the same manner.\"",
"Provisions have been made by the trust to ensure the houses are not sold off in the near future.",
"Only the manor house will be vacant for the new owner.",
"But locals do worry about their new landlord.",
"The village thatcher Paul Raynsford told CNN: \"I'd sooner not see a banker or someone who's going to asset strip it.",
"I'd like to see a film star, pop star, footballer, someone who just wants to buy it so they can say 'I'm the lord of the manor.'\"",
"Ray Smith, known locally as \"the Sheriff,\" has worked as the estate's manager for 50 years.",
"He says: \"I'd like to see an Englishman live in the manor, run the farm and the shoot like it used to be.\"",
"Indeed, Linkenholt is idyllic; within the beautiful surroundings classified as an area of outstanding beauty, this is a village full of characters and local tales.",
"Ray's wife Elsie talks of how they met as teenagers cycling past each other everyday on the way to work along the same path.",
"Stopping one day to help with her broken bike, they have been together ever since.",
"He made the permanent move to Linkenholt when the keeper before him caused a local scandal when caught illegally shooting the ground's deer.",
"Two doors down lives Elsie's sister, who is married to Ray's brother.",
"The sisters were born here, christened and later married in the church here, worked in the cricket club, and though their own children have moved further afield, they would never leave.",
"Their father even died on Linkenholt's cricket ground during a game in the 1930s.",
"Having dedicated their lives to the village, the Smiths and childhood friend Alan Dewey, another original local, were given the houses in which they live by the trust.",
"Ray adds: \"I'm on holiday all the time.",
"With a place like this to sit in the sun and look at all the views, I don't think you'd want to go anywhere else.\"",
"Though the media has shone a temporary light on Linkenholt, the hope after the arrival of the new owner is that the village will revert back to times of old, unspoilt and wonderfully English.",
"Reiterating the ideal of having a new lord of the manor, blacksmith Colin Boast adds: \"We would like to see someone come in and take the village to their heart and to love it like the people here do.\""
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"COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (CNN) -- At least 22 people were killed Friday in two bus bombings in Sri Lanka.",
"Sri Lankan security officials inspect the bus that was the target of the roadside bomb attack.",
"Initially, police said 21 commuters were killed and more than 53 wounded when an explosion hit a crowded bus in a town south of the capital of Sri Lanka on Friday, police said.",
"Police accused Tamil Tiger rebels of carrying out the attack in Moratuwa, a southern suburb of Colombo.",
"Police said they also discovered and defused a Claymore mine in the same place, preventing another explosion.",
"A few hours later a bomb explosion in a bus outside Sri Lanka's hill capital of Kandy killing one person, police said.",
"The incident took place at Polgolla, some eight kilometres from the outskirts of Kandy where the bus was headed from the hill country town of Matale.",
"Police also blamed Tamil Tiger rebels for that explosion.",
"At Moratuwa, police and soldiers sealed off an area around the scene and searched for suspects.",
"Authorities also intensified security in Colombo.",
"Initial reports said an explosive device was placed on the ground and detonated with a remote control device, police said.",
"In an adjoining town, another bomb was discovered and diffused immediately, they added.",
"Watch medics treat bus blast survivors » .",
"The explosion came as rebel bomb attacks on civilian targets in Colombo and its suburbs have showed a marked increase.",
"Pro-rebel web sites have accused Sri Lankan security forces of attacks on civilians in Wanni, the northern region dominated by them.",
"On Wednesday, a packed train heading to Colombo from the southern suburb of Panadura narrowly escaped severe damage when an explosion hit the track.",
"The blast injured 23 commuters.",
"On May 26, an explosion on the same southern railway line killed nine and injured 84."
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"(CNN) -- American al Qaeda member Adam Gadahn appeared in a video posted on the Internet on Saturday, focusing on Pakistan, with references to the U.S. economic meltdown and fighting in Kashmir.",
"Adam Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, is seen in a video posted on the Internet in August 2007.",
"The rambling, wide-ranging video was released by www.LauraMansfield.com, a Web site that analyzes terrorism.",
"The 32-minute video was produced by As Sahab, al Qaeda's video production arm.",
"Gadahn, also known as Azzam the American, is on the FBI's Most Wanted List, with a reward of up to $1 million for information leading to his capture.",
"He was indicted in 2006 on charges of offering material support for terrorism and treason, making him the first American charged with treason since World War II.",
"He has renounced his American citizenship.",
"\"It's time for you to put aside tribal, ethnic and territorial differences and petty worldly disputes not just for now but forever and unite to restore the glories of your forefathers and hasten, Allah willing, the defeat of the Zionist-crusader enemy and the establishment of the Islamic state, the Ummah, the so eagerly anticipated,\" Gadahn says in English.",
"Gadahn also notes that \"victory in Kashmir\" has been delayed for years, adding that, \"It is the liberation of the jihad there from this interference which, Allah willing, will be the first step towards victory over the Hindu occupiers of that Islam land.\"",
"He also cited the economic woes in the U.S. economy.",
"\"The enemies of Islam are facing a crushing defeat, which is beginning to manifest itself in the extending crisis their economy is experiencing.",
"The crisis, whose primary cause, in addition to the abortive and unsustainable crusades they are waging in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq, is they are turning their backs on Allah's revealed laws, which forbid interest-bearing transactions, exploitation, greed and and injustice in all its forms and demand the worship of Allah alone to the exclusion of all false gods, including money and power,\" he said.",
"Gadahn, who grew up in rural California, embraced Islam in the mid-1990s and moved to Pakistan.",
"Since October 2004, he has appeared in at least eight al Qaeda videos speaking in English and praising the terrorist network.",
"In a video released in January, Gadahn renounced his U.S. citizenship and destroyed his passport on camera, saying, \"I don't need it to travel anyway.\"",
"His demands have ranged from pulling out all soldiers from \"every Muslim land\" to halting support of the \"enemies of Islam\" and freeing all Muslims in detention centers and prisons.",
"Failure to take any one of the steps, he said, would be \"considered sufficient justification\" for continuing the fighting and killing.",
"However, according to CNN Senior Arab Affairs Editor Octavia Nasr, no known terrorism activity has been linked to his messages."
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"Video refers to ethnic divisions in Pakistan, fighting in Kashmir, U.S. economic woes .",
"The native Californian was charged with treason in 2006 ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Jessica Keenan tried on wedding dresses in a fancy Beverly Hills boutique, about 100 miles from the Santa Barbara, California, clinic where she gets blasted with chemotherapy once a week.",
"Jessica Keenan, 34, is getting married January 24, thanks to the Dream Foundation.",
"Keenan is 34 years old and battling Stage 4 breast cancer with faith, hope and a charity called the Dream Foundation, which helps terminally ill adults.",
"''You get a diagnosis and you never know how short your time is,\" Keenan said.",
"\"I chose to believe there is going to be a cure.",
"You still carry those dreams of getting married, having a kid.\"",
"But Keenan and her fiancé, Curtis Jimenez, couldn't afford a wedding -- their finances are sapped by her cancer battle.",
"They rent from friends.",
"Keenan wrote a letter to Dream Foundation, at the suggestion of her devoted nurses at the Santa Barbara cancer center.",
"\"It all just started snowballing,\" she said.",
"Her wish has been granted, thanks to Dream Foundation and flock of people she has never met.",
"Think of the foundation as Make-A-Wish, but instead of trying to help desperately sick children, Dream Foundation assists terminally ill adults.",
"Keenan's wedding is a different, more lavish wish than most of the requests the foundation has been receiving in this tough economy.",
"\"People's needs are becoming basic,\" said the charity's founder, Thomas Rollerson.",
"\"We are getting wishes just to pay an electric bill, pay the rent, or help keep a promise to go to Disneyland to give them that memory in a time of hopelessness, doctors visits and uncertainty.\"",
"Other dreams are simply for dying family members to be united with loved ones, last visits before last rites.",
"Rollerson explains that with money tight, donors can still help without writing big checks.",
"For example, people can donate frequent flier miles or hotel points.",
"When corporate donors and philanthropists jump in, a Dream Foundation wish can turn elaborate.",
"The foundation's Web site is a bulletin board of heartache looking for relief.",
"There's Bruce, 31, dying of Hodgkin's lymphoma.",
"He wants to leave New York state for the first time and take his wife and his 6-year-old son to Disney World.",
"Remedios is a California woman with incurable cancer.",
"She wants to treat the daughter who stands over her bed to a Quinceniera, a traditional celebration for a girl who turns 15 years old.",
"Bone cancer is expected to kill Edward Lucas of Springfield, Missouri, in less than six months.",
"He wants to celebrate his 21st wedding anniversary with his wife, Nancy, before he leaves her a widow with an adult daughter and three grandchildren.",
"Their dream is a warm-weather honeymoon trip never taken.",
"Edward was hospitalized and too weak to talk to CNN.",
"\"I wanted him to have a trip or something to look forward to,\" Nancy said.",
"\"A lot of people don't realize there are dreams for adults too.\"",
"The Lucas' dream trip is coming together with the help of Dream Foundation, which is hashing out some of the flight and hotel issues to Florida.",
"Back in California, Keenan's wedding is speeding toward January 24, thanks to dozens of corporate sponsors and a wealthy Texas do-gooder, Beverly Adams, who made a big financial contribution.",
"The upscale boutique Monique Lhullier donated the dress.",
"\"We're a conduit,\" Dream Foundation's Rollerson said.",
"\"People are willing to help.",
"They just need to know how and where.\" Keenan, a hairdresser by trade, was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 2005.",
"She thought she had it beat two years ago when she met her fiancé on New Year's Eve.",
"She found out in March of 2007 the cancer returned.",
"Her fiancé has remained at her side.",
"\"When they met, they were just so into each other,\" said Lena Rueff, who first introduced the bride-to-be to her brother.",
"\"He has been a rock for her. He packs snacks, games, books to the hospital where he stays with her.\"",
"In the dress shop, she and the other bridesmaids cheer for Jessica.",
"\"You look sexy!\" Her hair is cropped short after all the chemotherapy.",
"\"I like the long veil.\"",
"Jessica pauses, realizing she's not just playing dress-up with grade school friends.",
"\"It's overwhelming. I'm anxious and excited,\" she said, standing in a room where some dresses cost more than new cars.",
"\"I still don't believe it's going to happen.\"",
"The bridesmaids stop cheering for a second and rub away tears of joy."
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"One of her dreams is to get married to defy her terminally ill prognosis .",
"The Dream Foundation is helping her dream come true .",
"The foundation helps terminally ill adults with their last wishes ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy has charged six guards accused of assaulting detainees in May at Camp Bucca in Iraq, naval officials said Thursday.",
"U.S. guards patrol at Camp Bucca in Iraq in May.",
"The Army Criminal Investigation Division investigated alleged incidents that left two detainees with minor bruises.",
"The division also investigated an incident in which eight prisoners were confined overnight to a housing cell that had been sprayed with a riot control agent, the Navy said.",
"The six guards will face courts-martial.",
"Seven other cases have been resolved through nonjudicial punishment, according to a statement from the commander of U.S.",
"Naval Forces-Central Command.",
"The courts-martial are expected to start within 30 days at Camp Bucca, which is in southern Iraq near the Kuwaiti border.",
"The guards accused in the case are assigned to Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion 4."
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"Navy: Two detainees allegedly left with minor bruises ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- A lawsuit filed January 30 by baseball great Roberto Alomar's ex-girlfriend alleges he engaged in unprotected sex with her while suffering from HIV/AIDS.",
"Roberto Alomar's ex-girlfriend says he had unprotected sex with her while infected with HIV.",
"Ilya Dall is asking for $15 million for \"personal injuries\" suffered due to Alomar's negligence.",
"She and her two children lived with the former New York Mets slugger for three years.",
"She alleges that he started exhibiting signs of HIV as early as 2005, but twice refused recommendations for an HIV test by his doctor, saying that earlier tests for the disease had come back negative, according to court papers.",
"Alomar's lawyer, Charles Bach, was not available for comment, but attorney Luke Pittoni, who also represents Alomar, said, \"We believe this is a totally frivolous lawsuit -- these allegations are baseless, he's healthy and he'd like to keep his health status private.",
"We'll do our talking in court.\"",
"Anthony Piancentini, who is representing Dall, said he has \"no comment\" at this time.",
"Dall says in court papers that Alomar told her \"I don't have HIV.\"",
"She alleges he \"lied and purposefully misrepresented his physical condition\" and \"that he was endangering the health and well being of [Dall] by continuing to have unprotected sexual relations with [her],\" according to the lawsuit.",
"Court papers list several physical ailments that Dall says Alomar exhibited from early 2005 on, including white spots on his mouth and throat, extreme fatigue, back and vision problems, and shingles.",
"In early 2006, Alomar submitted to an HIV test that, according to court papers, confirmed he was HIV positive in February 2006.",
"Dall says she went for an HIV test shortly afterward and the results were negative.",
"The couple visited a disease specialist shortly after Alomar's diagnosis, who found a mass in Alomar's chest and advised the couple that he was suffering from full-blown AIDS, according to the lawsuit.",
"Dall alleges that a few days later, Alomar's skin was turning purple and he was foaming at the mouth; a spinal tap on February 21, 2006, confirmed he had full-blown AIDS, court papers said.",
"Dall claims in the lawsuit that Alomar's negligence caused her severe \"emotional distress\" over the health of her children.",
"Court papers say that because the couple lived with the children, they may have been exposed to Alomar's saliva or blood in the bathroom, through things like toothbrushes and other items.",
"Dall claims to suffer from \"permanent emotional distress\" even after repeatedly testing negative for HIV.",
"The lawsuit claims her fear of contracting the disease is known as \"AIDS phobia\" and that she suffers from permanent post-traumatic stress disorder.",
"Alomar requested Tuesday that the suit be moved to Brooklyn, New York, federal court.",
"It was originally filed in Supreme Court in Queens, New York.",
"An initial conference on the case is expected on April 15 in Brooklyn federal court.",
"Alomar is the son and brother of major leaguers -- father Sandy Alomar was a second baseman with several teams between 1964 and 1978 and brother Sandy Alomar Jr. is a former catcher who played from 1988 to 2007.",
"Roberto Alomar retired in 2004 with a .300 lifetime batting average, 12 All-Star game selections and 10 Gold Gloves.",
"He was the All Star Game MVP in 1998 and played on two Toronto Blue Jays World Series champion teams.",
"Alomar, then playing for the Baltimore Orioles, is also known for an incident in 1996 during a game against the Blue Jays when he spat in the face of umpire John Hirschbeck following a heated argument over a third strike.",
"After the incident, Alomar claimed the umpire uttered a slur to him during the argument."
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"Alomar's representative says claims are part of \"frivolous lawsuit\""
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"Editor's note: Jordan Lorence is senior legal counsel for the Alliance Defense Fund, a nonprofit organization of Christian attorneys.",
"He has litigated religious liberty and free speech cases since 1984, including the Southworth case before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1999, involving mandatory student fees at public universities, and a 2004 case that resulted in a California Supreme Court ruling that marriage licenses issued by San Francisco to same-sex couples were invalid.",
"Jordan Lorence says Rick Warren's views on marriage shouldn't bar him from Barack Obama's inauguration.",
"SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (CNN) -- Proponents of redefining marriage couldn't wait for the new president to be sworn in before demanding that he erase from the inauguration ceremony a prominent American who disagrees with them.",
"The target of their rhetorical bombardment is Rick Warren, the popular Christian pastor from Southern California.",
"President-elect Barack Obama has asked Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration.",
"Not so fast, cries Kathryn Kolbert, head of People for the American Way, an organization that claims to advance equality and freedom of speech and religion (but not for Rick Warren and those who agree with his marriage views) in a piece published on CNN.com.",
"Warren's grave sin?",
"Along with 52 percent of California voters, he supported California's Proposition 8, which affirmed the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.",
"What a radical! Though Warren will only be praying for the country's future (not giving a speech about marriage), Kolbert and others are pressuring Obama to set a precedent for his administration of publicly shunning someone who supports the traditional definition of marriage.",
"They want people like Warren silenced and ostracized for their \"hate speech,\" defined today as disagreeing with their agenda to impose a redefinition of marriage on an unwilling America.",
"Obama, to his credit, has resisted their strident demands.",
"The attacks on Warren are the latest in a series of coercive, intimidating attacks on supporters of traditional marriage.",
"Now, activists have ramped up their strong-arm tactics by pushing the president-elect to ban Warren from appearing at the inauguration.",
"This is amazingly audacious, in light of the fact that on marriage, the overwhelming majority of Americans and, indeed, humanity, agrees with Warren.",
"Americans have voted to preserve marriage in all 30 states where it has been on the ballot by an average vote of more than 65 percent.",
"The collective experience and wisdom of every major civilization from the dawn of time agrees that societies function best and children are best protected when marriage is defined as between one man and one woman.",
"Warren and those who agree with him want all nations to experience these benefits of marriage when it is rightly defined and consistently practiced.",
"Ironically, Obama has repeatedly stated that he agrees \"that marriage is the union between a man and a woman.\"",
"Does Kolbert question his fitness to serve as president in light of his allegedly \"bigoted\" views on marriage?",
"Kolbert brazenly denies that she and other activists desire to silence pastors like Warren because of their marriage views.",
"She is indignant that Warren and others spread the \"big lie\" that redefining marriage would threaten the freedom of speech and religious liberties of those who hold the view shared by the vast majority of Americans.",
"Her argument is disarming in its pure duplicity.",
"Part of Kolbert's case against Warren, who she thinks should not be speaking at such an important public ceremony, is that he believes that folks like her are working to ban people like him from speaking at public ceremonies.",
"Thus, the \"big lie\" becomes an obvious truth.",
"This is really all about ideological purity -- and purging.",
"Are the activists proposing that no one should be permitted to speak at the inauguration if they hold beliefs on marriage contrary to hers and her ideological bedfellows?",
"How can publicly snubbing the influential and respected Warren advance what Kolbert calls \"the values of unity and respect ... on which President-elect Obama campaigned?\"",
"It won't. But it will surely send a message to those who believe in marriage, that they will be viciously attacked for expressing, or merely believing, that marriage is defined as between one man and one woman.",
"Ms. Kolbert provides just the latest example of how the forces of \"tolerance\" and \"diversity\" quickly abandon their principles of \"live and let live\" when somebody disagrees with them.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Jordan Lorence."
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"He says activists are seeking to ban Warren from speaking because of his views .",
"Lorence says Warren's view on marriage is the majority position in the U.S.",
"He says Obama also believes marriage is between a man and a woman ."
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"Editor's note: Carly Fiorina is chief executive of Carly Fiorina Enterprises and former chief executive of HP.",
"She was an adviser to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign last year.",
"Carly Fiorina says outrage at Wall St. pay is justified but salaries shouldn't be set by government.",
"(CNN) -- Americans are outraged over excessive CEO pay and perks.",
"That outrage is justified, particularly when American taxpayers are footing the bill.",
"Our capitalist system works best when there is transparency and accountability.",
"There has been too little of both on Wall Street.",
"Inevitably, the president and Congress are now attempting to respond to taxpayer anger and restore some \"common sense,\" as President Obama recently declared, to CEO compensation.",
"The proposed solution caps top executive pay at $500,000 for institutions that have received bailout money.",
"I don't think this is the answer, although it is an understandable reaction.",
"It's arbitrary: Why not $400,000 or $600,000?",
"It's incomplete. It only applies to institutions that will receive more government assistance going forward.",
"And it doesn't strengthen our economy when government decides how much each job is worth.",
"In America we leave that job to markets.",
"So what's the answer? To strengthen transparency, all aspects of CEO pay and perks should be fully disclosed on a regular basis.",
"This should include airplanes, cars, golf-club memberships, bonuses, stock options, retirement plans and salaries -- in short everything that a common-sense person would consider part of a CEO reward package.",
"See Fiorina discuss exec pay, including her own » .",
"To strengthen accountability, all aspects of CEO compensation should be voted on by shareholders on an annual basis.",
"Ultimately, it is the owners of a company who must determine whether a CEO's rewards are justified by a CEO's performance.",
"And because the American taxpayer is now a partial owner in many companies, the government can get a vote as well -- in some cases a very sizeable vote.",
"In addition, \"clawback provisions,\" which require a CEO to return compensation to shareholders if promised results aren't delivered, should be standard fare.",
"Finally, when a company comes to Washington for American taxpayer money, it is an admission that mistakes have been made and major bets have failed.",
"These CEOs should be prepared to tender their resignations and those of their boards.",
"To earn a bailout, a CEO and board should be held accountable.",
"We should not weaken our economy while trying to fix it.",
"These are difficult times.",
"President Obama has described our current situation as a \"crisis\" and an impending \"catastrophe.\"",
"In such times, action is required.",
"The key is to take actions that help in the short-term, while also being sensible for the medium and long-term.",
"Too often our politicians react to crisis and public anger by over-reaching, and they create new, unforeseen problems that only become clear with the passage of time.",
"In this country, the opportunity to be rewarded for taking prudent risk is fundamental to our economic vitality and strength.",
"Let's not lose that fundamental principle in our outrage over Wall Street greed and excess.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Carly Fiorina."
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"Carly Fiorina: It's understandable that people are outraged at Wall St. pay .",
"Fiorina says government shouldn't set limits on executive compensation .",
"She says all aspects of pay and perks should be disclosed .",
"Fiorina: Shareholders, including government, should vote on pay packages ."
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"(CNN) -- The Indigo Girls navigate the challenges of today's recording environment with their new two-disc album, \"Poseidon and the Bitter Bug.\"",
"The Indigo Girls, Amy Ray, left, and Emily Saliers released their latest folk-rock album on Tuesday.",
"Rather than abandon ship amid the country's economic recession and after being dumped by their former label, the folk-rockers decided to release the album independently -- and they recorded it in a mere three weeks.",
"The veteran Atlanta, Georgia, duo remains optimistic about America's recording industry and the ability of artists to market themselves online.",
"But nothing will replace a heartfelt live performance, said Amy Ray.",
"\"We need to keep art as a visceral experience, too, and not just an Internet experience,\" said Ray, who plays in the group with Emily Saliers.",
"It is \"going to be up to bands to keep touring and people to keep going to hear 'em.\"",
"Watch their live performance and interview with CNN » .",
"CNN talked with the Indigo Girls about the Internet, food, their Southern roots and their newest album's strange name.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview.",
"CNN: What's been the primary influence for you all?",
"Has it been a place, like Atlanta?",
"Or has it been something else?",
"Emily Saliers: Atlanta and the South, just in general. ...",
"Some of it comes through the content and some of it just comes through a vibe.",
"We're sort of a hootenanny bar band.",
"We cut our teeth in Little Five Points Pub, and what we always like to do is bring people up on the stage and jam with us.",
"... We tie it back to the days when people just sat on the porch and played together.",
"It's a very Southern thing, an Appalachian thing.",
"CNN: Tell me about the title for this album.",
"Saliers: Mitchell Froom, the producer, came up with the title, and it was originally a joke.",
"He said it and he laughed -- and we all laughed.",
"Naming a record is probably one of the hardest things in the whole process, and that name just stuck with us.",
"And it's also cool because \"Poseidon\" is a reference to a lyric in one of my songs, and \"Bitter Bug\" is a reference to a lyric in one of Amy's songs.",
"So to be able to fit two of those pieces together in a way that works is cool.",
"CNN: And you all are working as free agents on this [album].",
"Tell me about that. Amy Ray: We got dropped from the last label we were on, Hollywood, right before we were going to go into the studio, so we just kind of kept all of our plans in place and everyone that was going to be involved with us came to the table and gave us deals and made it work.",
"... Creatively we've always done what we want, but on the business level it's demoralizing when you feel like there's not a team anymore because the label you're on isn't really behind you or doesn't know what to do, or is kind of paralyzed by the industry, generally.",
"CNN: What are you all listening to lately?",
"Saliers: You know, I just bought yesterday -- I downloaded it -- Sean Lennon's last record.",
"I saw him on some obscure Japanese channel when we were in some other part of the world and I really like the sound of that.",
"And then this artist named Sia.",
"She sang with Zero 7 and she's a really good artist, I like her stuff a lot.",
"I like the Weepies.",
"CNN: You [Emily Saliers] are a part owner in a restaurant here in Atlanta.",
"... Is there any kind of relationship between music and a good restaurant experience?",
"Saliers: There definitely is!",
"The name of the restaurant is Watershed, it's in Decatur [Georgia].",
"We're very fortunate to have Scott Peacock as our executive chef. ...",
"He's a very decorated chef but he also makes Southern food -- good Southern food.",
"It's kind of like what your grandmother would make if you grew up in the South: lots of lard and butter and comfort food ...",
"I think the experience of sharing food is a lot like the experience of sharing music.",
"It's just something that people's work goes into it and a lot of love goes into it, and then you share it together.",
"CNN: I wonder what you make of Twitter and artists playing on Second Life and sort of all of these virtual personas that people have these days.",
"Ray: I don't really have a judgment about it one way or the other.",
"I have a lot of friends that delve into all that stuff and it doesn't stop them from being creative in other ways.",
"I think it increases creativity and exercises a different part of your mind.",
"... My nieces and nephews, they're very involved in [the video game] \"Rock Band\" and stuff like that, which I think is really great because it's introducing them to music, but I just want them to go outside sometime, too.",
"(laughs) That's all. Play in the woods a little bit.",
"CNN: How has your collaboration changed over time?",
"Saliers: The way that we collaborate hasn't changed that much.",
"Amy writes her songs; I write my songs.",
"We write totally separately but then since the very beginning we've come together to arrange songs.",
"... Over the years we've picked up a few more instruments, so texturally we're more expansive than we were when we were just two guitars at the very beginning.",
"Now there's harmonica and mandolin and banjo -- a little bit of keyboard.",
"We mix that up, but the process is pretty much the same. We just trust it more now."
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"The Indigo Girls released their latest album, \"Poseidon and the Bitter Bug,\" Tuesday .",
"The folk rockers talk with CNN about working on the independent effort .",
"The Atlanta duo recorded the album in just three weeks .",
"Band member: Writing process is the same, but \"we just trust it more now\""
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"(CNN) -- Kansas leaders Wednesday ended a standoff that had delayed tax refunds and state paychecks by agreeing to borrow $225 million from various state accounts, a spokeswoman for the governor's office said.",
"Kansas Gov.",
"Kathleen Sebelius approved $300 million in budget cuts Wednesday.",
"Republican lawmakers approved moving money into the state's main account to pay the bills after budget cuts agreed to by Gov.",
"Kathleen Sebelius, spokeswoman Brittany Stiffler said.",
"The state resumed processing income tax refunds on Wednesday -- they had been suspended last week because of low funds -- and state employees' paychecks will be paid on time Friday, Department of Administration spokesman Gavin Young said.",
"Republicans earlier this week denied the Democratic governor's request to move the money, saying they could not approve the certificate of indebtedness, also known as internal borrowing, until they knew the state could repay the money by June 30, the end of the fiscal year.",
"However, Republicans said they would be likely to approve the internal borrowing if Sebelius agreed to the Legislature's proposed budget cuts for the 2009 fiscal year.",
"On Wednesday, she approved about $300 million in budget cuts.",
"\"She blinked, and that's helpful,\" Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt, a Republican, said Wednesday.",
"\"I'm just sorry we had to have high drama and worry a lot of Kansans about our ability to pay our obligations,\" Sebelius said Wednesday.",
"Kansas was one of several states to meet this week to address budget concerns in a time when 43 states are starting the year short on funds, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.",
"\"This is an equal-opportunity recession.",
"States in virtually every part of the country are suffering... even the energy states are starting to report problems,\" Corina Eckl of the National Conference of State Legislatures said.",
"iReport.com: What you'd fix first .",
"\"For most, it has only gone downhill.",
"They have tried to make up the difference with expanded gambling, with delays of construction projects, with hiring freezes, with fee and tax increases.",
"But almost all of this has failed to regain lost ground, merely serving as a firebreak against worse troubles,\" she said.",
"California faces a $42 billion deficit that prompted Gov.",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger to declare a fiscal emergency in December.",
"California lawmakers worked into early Wednesday but couldn't pass a budget.",
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger issued 10,000 layoff notices Tuesday, affecting a wide spectrum of state agencies and employees, in an effort to deal with the budget crisis, a spokesman said.",
"Another 10,000 layoff notices might be sent Wednesday, the spokesman said.",
"All the layoffs would take effect July 1, the start of the new fiscal year.",
"The Republican governor has butted heads for months with the Democratic majority over easing the $11.2 billion revenue shortfall this fiscal year alone.",
"Cuts would save California $750 million for the year.",
"The $42 billion deficit is for the current and next fiscal years.",
"Interactive: See projected state budget gaps » .",
"Last month, the state began delaying $3.5 billion in payments to taxpayers, contractors, counties and social service agencies so the state could continue funding schools and making debt payments.",
"Watch more on California's budget woes » .",
"Also today, New Jersey's governor announced that all state employees will be forced to take two unpaid furlough days, a move that will save $35 million, part of the nearly $4 billion in budget cuts that state is making.",
"In Maryland, tax collections in nearly every category are falling short of expectations, with dismal revenue projects putting more pressure on state legislators to balance the budget without relying on the federal stimulus package, CNN affiliate WBAL reported.",
"State workers in Colorado may face unpaid time off in an effort to spare the state's colleges and universities millions of dollars in budget cuts, KUSA-TV in Denver reported Tuesday.",
"Interactive: Estimated job growth across the country .",
"Gov. Bill Ritter, a Democrat, announced plans recently to furlough some state workers to balance the budget.",
"Roughly $600 million in budget cuts need to be made by the end of this fiscal year, according to KUSA.",
"State lawmakers will debate a bill in the House this week that would require furloughs for state workers depending on how much money they make.",
"\"It's drastic, but we're in a drastic situation,\" Rep. Steve King, R-Grand Junction, told KUSA.",
"In Washington state, proposed budget cuts have led to protests in the capital, Olympia, KOMO-TV in Seattle reported.",
"State officials are looking at some $300 million in cuts as part of a package the governor is expected to sign this week.",
"Lawmakers also are aiming to cut nearly $6 billion over the next two years.",
"But about 100 union members, state employees, school supporters and health care providers rallied on the lawn of the Capitol, telling lawmakers to stop the health care and education cuts and prevent tuition hikes.",
"State employees said they want fair pay, better benefits and pensions and no layoffs.",
"Hawaii faces a nearly $2 billion budget shortfall in the upcoming fiscal year.",
"That figure has led legislators to seek alternative ways of balancing the budget, including possible reductions in health and retirement benefits for government workers, KHNL-TV in Honolulu reported Tuesday.",
"One bill being debated in the Legislature aims to cut off insurance benefits for all employees retiring after July 1 regardless of how many years they had worked.",
"Back East, states such as New York and Florida, which have high unemployment rates and huge budget shortfalls, also are looking to cut programs.",
"In New York, the expected budget shortfall is around $1.7 billion, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.",
"President Obama took his economic stimulus message to Florida last week to hard-hit Fort Myers.",
"The jobless rate in the area is 10 percent, up from 2.3 percent this time in 2006, and the area's foreclosure rate of 12 percent is the highest in the nation.",
"Interactive: See where the stimulus money is going » .",
"And Michigan's Democratic Gov.",
"Jennifer Granholm, whose state has been hit especially hard by the recession and the auto industry's near collapse, said job creation is paramount to turning the economy around.",
"\"We see the impact of this every day, and I'm speaking not just for Michigan, but for governors across the country.",
"We need help. We need it now. And it's not about budgets; it's about creating jobs in our states,\" she said recently on CNN's \"State of the Union With John King.\"",
"CNN's Taylor Gandossy, Ed Hornick and Stan Wilson contributed to this report."
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"Kathleen Sebelius approves $300 million in cuts for 2009 budget .",
"NEW: State leaders agree to borrow $225 million to pay tax refunds, state employees .",
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"Jon Corzine announces 2 furlough days for state employees .",
"43 states starting year short, National Conference of State Legislatures says ."
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"Editor's note: CNN Contributor Bob Greene is a bestselling author whose current book is \"When We Get to Surf City: A Journey Through America in Pursuit of Rock and Roll, Friendship, and Dreams.\"",
"Peggy Sue Gerron, left, and Jerry Allison, right, at Buddy Holly's wedding to Maria Elena Holly.",
"(CNN) -- After days on end of grim and dreary news, the first weekend of spring is with us, and with its arrival comes, to many people, the yearly promise of new romance and a chance for lasting love.",
"But if figuring out the secrets of how to revive a battered economy is something that is complicated and elusive, that quandary is simple in comparison to matters of the heart.",
"The legendary experts on romance, star-crossed and otherwise, are generally not available for comment.",
"Romeo and Juliet have left the building.",
"However, there is one person I know who has a better feel for the vagaries of love than most, and I sought her out the other day.",
"\"Spring is the time when you allow yourself to hope that love will come around again,\" said Peggy Sue Gerron.",
"You may not recognize her full name, but you sure do recognize the first part of it.",
"Yep -- she's that Peggy Sue.",
"The Peggy Sue of Buddy Holly's unforgettable 1957 hit, a song of longing and heartbreak that is instantly familiar today even to people who weren't born until decades after it came out.",
"\"If you knew Peggy Sue, then you'd know why I feel blue ...\" Juliet, that other symbol of the glory of love, may have been a fictional creation of William Shakespeare's imagination, but Peggy Sue was, and is, real.",
"She lives in West Texas, just as she did when Buddy Holly recorded the song.",
"She was actually not even his girlfriend, although she sensed a certain yearning on his part.",
"She was the girlfriend of Jerry Allison, the drummer for the Crickets, Holly's band.",
"\"I think the reason people think about finding love in the spring is that the season represents new beginnings,\" she said.",
"\"The flowers are blooming.",
"The air smells good.",
"You feel that you have a chance.\"",
"In the song, Peggy Sue, implicitly, was the one who did the dumping, not the one who got dumped.",
"But time has made her understand: .",
"\"I think, I really believe, that on a rare occasion, two people in life run across each other in a path like two comets.",
"And when it happens, I think that feeling lasts forever.\"",
"Which is to say: With a love so rare and true.",
"And that, she said, is what makes people keep looking for love regardless of how many times they may have tried and failed.",
"She has a theory of what being in love does to a person: .",
"\"Your eyes are a little bit shinier and your skin is a little bit clearer when you're in love.",
"When you meet that person, you think: Whatever you're doing, I want to be right beside you when you're doing it.",
"I want to be near you just because I like to see your smile.\"",
"Not that being Peggy Sue means she has all the answers.",
"\"I don't,\" she said. She is 68 now; she has been married twice, divorced twice.",
"When she introduces herself to new people, they often say, \"Oh -- like the Peggy Sue in the song!\"",
"Sometimes she tells them she is in fact that Peggy Sue; sometimes she lets it go.",
"It's an uphill battle to convince them she's not kidding.",
"And as the woman who eternally will be a symbol of true love's ways, she thinks she understands why people never give up on hoping to find the right person.",
"\"You have a tendency to put the walls up after you've been hurt,\" she said.",
"\"You think it's not worth trying again.",
"But then you do it anyway. It's like it's not even up to you. It's stronger than your intellect.\"",
"For those who, as spring arrives, have just lost a great love, her advice for dealing with the sadness is to remember that some people never find love in their whole lives.",
"\"Even if you're the one to get left, you've been lucky to have the feeling.",
"And the feeling, unlike the person, will never leave you.\"",
"Somewhere this spring -- many somewheres, undoubtedly -- the words, sung for the first time more than 50 years ago, will come blasting once again out of a car dashboard's speakers: .",
"\"Pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue.\"",
"And people in 2009, hearing it, will remember anew just how much happiness the right person can bring.",
"\"When I first heard the song,\" Peggy Sue said, \"I just thought the drums and the lyrics and the melody were so great, it made me want to get up and dance.",
"As I grew older, it began to seem like more of a love song to me.",
"It began to seem more like a song about not giving up.\"",
"Living in Lubbock, Texas, a ham radio enthusiast in an age of Twitter and text messages, she said she is currently not dating anyone.",
"And with the arrival of spring, and its universal promise of life's best possibilities, she acknowledges that there is hope in her own heart, too.",
"\"Always,\" said Peggy Sue.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Bob Greene."
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"He says she has a theory about what love does to a person .",
"Greene: As spring arrives, Peggy Sue admits she has hope in her heart ."
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"ROME, Italy (CNN) -- The world's richest countries committed to \"any further action that may prove necessary\" to restore confidence in the global financial system, their finance ministers said as they wrapped up a two-day meeting in Rome.",
"U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is calling on governments to help restart the flow of credit.",
"The Group of Seven finance ministers also urged countries not to close their markets to goods and services from abroad.",
"\"An open system of global trade and investment is indispensable for global prosperity,\" they said in a statement at the end of their meeting Saturday.",
"\"Protectionist measures ... would only exacerbate the downturn\" in the worldwide economy.",
"The ministers said the global banking crisis had revealed \"fundamental weaknesses in the international financial system\" and called for urgent reform.",
"Watch workers put pressure on the ministers » .",
"New U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, making his international debut at the meetings, called on governments to focus on stabilizing and strengthening financial systems and help restart the flow of credit.",
"\"Although the precise mix of measures must be tailored to each country's situation -- our financial systems are different, [the] structures of our systems are very different -- there is a common recognition of more capital and government financing to help restart credit markets,\" he said.",
"Italy hosted the meeting in its role as G-7 president for 2009.",
"G-7 members includes the United States, Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Britain and Canada.",
"The agenda drawn up by Rome calls for adopting global measures and economic policy reforms capable of stabilizing the world economy and ensuring transparency to allow markets to function correctly.",
"Watch CNN correspondents on the impact of job losses around the world » .",
"Geithner spoke just after the U.S. Senate gave final approval late Friday to a $787 billion recovery package to boost the U.S. economy.",
"He told attendees that the package \"provides a very powerful mix of investments and tax cuts to create jobs and to strengthen our long-term growth potential.\"",
"\"As we act together to build a strong foundation for economic growth and recovery, we need to begin the process of comprehensive reform of our financial system, so that we never again face a crisis of this severity,\" Geithner said.",
"Another attendee, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, said he supports such stimulus packages for advanced countries.",
"\"The question is no more to convince the governments to move today, but for them to implement the policies they need to manage,\" Strauss-Kahn said.",
"He also warned of the dangers of protectionism, which he said may still come \"through the back door, especially in the financial sector.\""
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"(CNN) -- President Obama's pledge to conquer cancer \"in our time\" is a great goal, but one of America's top cancer experts isn't sure he'd use the word \"cure.\"",
"Despite chemotherapy, some breast cancers recur, like a \"smoldering fire that flares up,\" Dr. Otis Brawley said.",
"\"The idea of [calling for] a cure does scare me a little bit because, I don't think that's realistic in some cancers,\" says Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical officer for the American Cancer Society.",
"\"But I like the general overall idea, and I'm thrilled about the focus on health.\"",
"Obama's first proposed budget includes $6 billion for cancer research by the National Institutes of Health.",
"That's on top of the additional $10 billion provided by the stimulus package for 2009 and 2010.",
"But some cancer specialists say that rather than finding a cure, a more realistic scenario is that certain cancers that are fatal today will move into the realm of chronic illnesses.",
"By chronic disease, doctors mean \"the way we think of diabetes or heart disease as chronic diseases, where people could live in peaceful coexistence with cancer, as opposed to the cancer continuing to advance,\" said Brawley, who also is CNNhealth.com's conditions expert.",
"Dr. Tony Reid, an oncologist and director of clinical trials at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, shares this view.",
"He sees the long-term management of certain cancers as chronic illness as a \"primary intermediate step\" as researchers work towards cures.",
"Prevention efforts, including discouraging smoking, obesity, and environmental hazards, are also important components of the cure, Dr. Andreas Ullrich, medical officer in cancer control at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.",
"How long it will actually take to cure cancer is anyone's guess, but Obama's initiative is encouraging, he said.",
"\"We need this hope,\" Ullrich said.",
"\"We need to invest in our efforts in research, in basic research, and also in social science to understand why people behave in a risky way, and how to prevent people from exposing themselves to cancer risk,\" he said.",
"Given that \"cancer\" encompasses more than 200 diseases, it makes sense that different varieties would require different approaches for saving the lives of their victims.",
"From Brawley's perspective, a cure happens when the disease has gone away and it's not likely to come back, and the person is likely to grow old and die from something totally unrelated.",
"Reid put it in terms of years of survival -- with pancreatic cancer, which normally takes lives within six months of diagnosis, you're probably cured if you're still alive five years after surgery, he said.",
"But breast cancer can come back even after 10 years, he said.",
"About 11 million people living in the United States had a history of some form of cancer as of 2005, according to the latest statistics from the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results database.",
"There has been progress, however.",
"For American men, the risk of death for cancer is 20 percent lower than it was 20 years ago, Brawley said.",
"Rates of new cancer diagnoses and deaths for U.S. men and women simultaneously fell for the first time since reporting began in 1998, according to a report published in November in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.",
"See a map of lung cancer in the U.S. from this report » .",
"Already there are cancers that respond well to drugs for several years.",
"Patients with gastrointestinal stromal tumors tend to tolerate the drugs well, for example, Reid said.",
"\"I have many patients who will come back and say, 'Except for the fact that you tell me I have cancer, I don't know it,' \" he said.",
"But after a while, these patients' cancer cells mutate and evolve to become resistant to the drugs, finding ways around almost any drug, Reid said.",
"Some breast cancer patients take medications for 10 years to prevent recurrence, said Dr. Stephanie Hines, physician at the breast center at the Mayo Clinic's Breast Cancer Center in Jacksonville, Florida.",
"But great strides have been made in such drugs, she said.",
"\"There is real promise at eventually eradicating breast cancer,\" she said.",
"\"I would say maybe not in the next five or 10 years.",
"But it may happen -- I don't know if in our lifetime.\"",
"Still, only a few kinds of cancer are currently cured, and that's often dependent on early detection -- testicular and early stage breast cancer are two of the few examples, Reid said.",
"About 80 percent of lymphomas are cured, Brawley said.",
"Metastatic lung cancer and metastatic breast cancer, on the other hand, are more likely to one day become \"chronic diseases,\" which would be treated throughout a person's life rather than eliminated, Brawley said.",
"\"Once it's metastasized or spread, you can't really do surgery unless you want to do almost cherry-picking throughout the body, which doesn't really work,\" he said.",
"Currently, some breast cancers regress even with chemotherapy.",
"Cancer specialists compare these breast cancers to \"a smoldering fire which flares up every once in a while\" and requires more water, Brawley said.",
"Extending the amount of time that a person could live like that is a \"reasonable goal,\" he said.",
"Cancer doctors emphasize that Obama's initiative is a tremendous asset to cancer research.",
"\"I think that all the tools are there -- it's just, we have to do the hard work of testing them, evaluating them, and making them available to patients, Reid said."
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"(CNN) -- Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa said Friday he will not pay interest on the nation's foreign debt and that he was prepared to accept any consequences.",
"Correa made the comments to reporters in Guayaquil, Ecuador, about the interest payments, one of which was due Friday, his office said in a statement.",
"He said he was studying how to challenge the debt, which he called \"immoral and a betrayal of the country,\" a reference to the way the terms of the debt were originally set.",
"He said that though $7 billion has already been spent to pay an original debt accrued during the 1980s of $4 billion, the principal remains about the same.",
"\"If we have to confront international lawsuits, we will confront them and, I repeat, I assume all responsibility,\" he said.",
"\"I could not permit the continued payment of a debt that, in any light, is immoral and illegitimate.\"",
"Correa said he was preparing a restructuring plan to be presented to creditors within a few days, and he chafed at criticism of how the money has been spent.",
"\"We have tried to pay this overdue social debt with a program of housing without parallel in Ecuadorian history, which certain corrupt members of the press -- in function of their political interests -- now want to discredit, pointing out the inevitable houses that -- out of 80,000 -- are going to have defects,\" he said.",
"But he said such complaints were outweighed by the \"tens of thousands of happy families with their own worthy little houses ... and all the people who can testify to the success of the program.\"",
"The popular leftist economist said he would try to prove in international courts that the debt is illegal."
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"(CNN) -- Microsoft founder Bill Gates told CNN on Wednesday that he hopes President-elect Barack Obama and Congress immediately craft a wide-ranging stimulus package, to help jump-start the nation's sputtering economy, and double the United States' commitment to foreign aid.",
"Microsoft founder Bill Gates spoke exclusively Wednesday with CNN's Wolf Blitzer.",
"\"Clearly we need a stimulus that doesn't undermine the incentive for businesses to be careful about their spending and making those correct investments,\" Gates told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an exclusive interview airing on The Situation Room on Wednesday and Thursday.",
"Gates, one of the world's richest men and founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is also calling on Obama to increase investments in the nation's education system and spur technological advances to improve agriculture, prevent disease, and promote economic growth in the world's poorest nations.",
"\"The key point I'd make is that in addition to that stimulus, you've got to fund the kind of scientific work and educational investments that could really have us be a much better country as we emerge from the recession,\" he said.",
"Watch Gates discuss economy » .",
"On his Web site, Obama has pledged to double the United States' annual investment in foreign aid to $50 billion by the end of his first term, with the goal of fully funding debt cancellation for poor nations and fighting AIDS and global poverty.",
"In the interview with CNN, Gates said he thinks Obama will live up to that commitment.",
"\"Obviously it's the Congress that gets to actually vote the final decision for how the money is spent, but I do think he will get to that commitment,\" Gates said.",
"\"I am thrilled to be able to see that people are responding to the success stories.",
"Aid from the United States did go up in the last eight years.\"",
"The interview came shortly before the Microsoft founder delivered a wide-ranging speech at The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., during which he reiterated his call for a major new stimulus package to spur job growth.",
"\"Spending is the only way we'll ever come out of this downturn, and with businesses, state governments and consumers pulling back, the federal government must step forward,\" Gates told the crowd.",
"The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has distributed more than $17 billion in grant commitments in all 50 states and 100 countries.",
"In his interview with CNN, Gates said he had personally given more than $30 billion to the foundation."
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"BOGOTA, Colombia (CNN) -- A volcano in southwest Colombia erupted again Friday morning, raining ash on nearby residents and agricultural fields.",
"The Galeras volcano, erupting here in January 2008, is considered the most active volcano in Colombia.",
"None of the 8,000 residents who live near the Galeras volcano was reported injured, officials said.",
"It is the second time in less than a week that the volcano has erupted.",
"The government's Geological and Mining Institute raised the alert level from yellow to red, and officials opened eight shelters for displaced residents.",
"Authorities ordered the 8,000 people who live near the volcano to evacuate.",
"The city of Pasto, which has about 35,000 residents and is more than 12 miles (about 20 kilometers) from the volcano's crater, received a heavy downpour of ashes Friday.",
"The volcano, near Colombia's border with Ecuador, previously erupted Saturday.",
"It has erupted several times since it became active again in 1989.",
"The only fatalities were in 1993, when nine people -- all scientists or tourists in or near the volcano's crater -- were killed.",
"The volcano's crater is 14,029 feet (4,276 meters) above sea level in the Andes Mountains.",
"It is considered the most active volcano in Colombia.",
"Journalist Fernando Ramos contributed to this report."
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"Editor's note: This story is part of an ongoing series of profiles CNN is doing about economic survival in this time of financial crisis.",
"Nicole Thompson-Arce poses on her wedding day with her husband, Mathew Arce, and her ex-mother-in-law.",
"(CNN) -- Struggling to make ends meet, trying to dig themselves out of debt, Nicole Thompson-Arce and her husband have moved in with her ex-husband.",
"Together, the unlikely threesome of Omaha, Nebraska, is raising two young daughters from the first marriage.",
"It's the kind of situation that has left cable guys howling.",
"\"They'd never heard anything like this,\" Thompson-Arce, 28, remembered with a laugh.",
"\"And they're in people's homes everyday.\"",
"When she and Craig Thompson, 42, were going through a divorce in 2005, this was not a deal either of them could have imagined striking.",
"It was a messy divorce, the kind involving a custody dispute.",
"But once they ironed out that battle, agreeing to joint custody, Thompson-Arce said they were able to move on and forward.",
"iReport: Read Thompson-Arce's post .",
"By the time she married Mathew Arce last July, she said she and her ex were friends.",
"In fact, they were so close that his mother -- meaning Thompson-Arce's ex-mother-in-law -- was in (not just at) the second wedding ceremony.",
"Soon after the Florida wedding, the new lovebirds flew into a financial mess.",
"She had left a job, and as soon as she found another (a temp position), her 22-year-old husband was fired from his higher-paying gig.",
"iReport.com: Job hunt stories .",
"They fell behind in rent.",
"The bills stacked up.",
"The credit card debt grew.",
"iReport.com: What are you cutting from budget?",
"A couple months later, Arce, landed a temporary Wal-Mart cashier position, which has since turned into a full-time job.",
"But finances remained shaky and digging themselves out of debt seemed insurmountable.",
"Tell us how you're surviving in this economy .",
"In walked the ex with an offer, just in time for Christmas.",
"Thompson, an 18-year bakery employee at Wal-Mart, lives in a three-bedroom, one-bath home.",
"\"I knew they were having money problems, so I just asked them to move in,\" he said.",
"\"I figured I'd get to see my girls, my daughters, more often.",
"And Nicole said yes right away.\"",
"Besides the economic savings, the benefits are many.",
"No longer do they have to shuttle Victoria, 7, and Caitlyn, 6, between two households.",
"As a team, they can parent and be on the same page.",
"Finding a baby sitter is never a problem.",
"They take turns making meals, which they all share.",
"Thompson and Arce, who are 20 years apart -- \"I had to get the whole spectrum going there,\" Thompson-Arce joked -- have become the best of friends, and share a similar sense of humor.",
"They have tackled home improvement projects, run around together on days they both have off and often hang out at the kitchen table building plastic models.",
"\"We just clicked,\" Thompson said.",
"\"When I tell people, 'I'm living with my ex-wife and her husband,' I get some really strange looks.",
"...It's different. It's unusual, but it works.\"",
"The transition has been smooth and great for the kids, Thompson-Arce said.",
"And for their benefit, irrespective of finances, she thinks it's a living situation they'll stick with for at least five to 10 years.",
"It has, however, taken a little time for the little ones to get the story straight.",
"Seven-year-old Victoria went back to school after winter break -- and after the whole team had blended under one roof -- and started telling people this: \" 'My mommy has two husbands,'\" Thompson-Arce remembered.",
"\"I was like, 'No, honey, don't tell them that!'\"",
"What she and both men hope the girls are learning is that divorced parents can work together and be friends.",
"\"There are so many families that go through divorce and can never let it go,\" she said.",
"\"I'm thankful, and hopefully our situation can help people rethink things because if they have kids, it's in their best interest to get along.\"",
"One might wonder whether the couple, who've been married for less than a year, get enough time alone together, given where they're living.",
"Thompson-Arce points out that her ex works a shift that sends him to bed at 7 p.m., so the evenings -- after the kids are asleep -- are for her and her husband to share.",
"Watch restaurant holds date night event » .",
"\"When they do have a romantic evening, I don't hear them, so we're not going there,\" Thompson quipped.",
"\"There's a bathroom between our two bedrooms.\"",
"The ex-husband hasn't dated since the divorce.",
"He said it's because he's been focused on work and taking care of the kids.",
"Thompson-Arce, however, said that she and her husband are forever trying to get Thompson on the dating scene and want him to meet someone special.",
"Special, and understanding, she would most definitely need to be.",
"\"He'd have to find a very open-minded woman because we don't plan on going anywhere anytime soon,\" Thompson-Arce said."
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"(CNN) -- The body of a journalist who was hacked to death in southeastern Nepal was cremated Tuesday as businesses and public transportation in the town of Janakpur remained shut for a second day to protest the killing.",
"Uma Singh, who was murdered in Nepal Sunday, had talked about the difficulties of practicing journalism.",
"Authorities said they arrested four people in connection with the death of Uma Singh, but they did not release the suspects' names or possible motive, said Damakant Jayashi, associate editor of the online news Web site, myrepublica.com.",
"\"Journalists and human rights groups have descended on the town, and shops are shuttered in what almost seems like a spontaneous protest,\" Jayashi said.",
"\"Journalists are all wearing black bands on their arms.",
"And the FM stations in the city, all day yesterday, they played mourning tunes instead of their regular programs.\"",
"The killing of Singh, 26, is the latest in a \"troubling trend\" of attacks on reporters, the United Nations' human rights office in the country said.",
"It asked the government to investigate the case and prosecute death threats against other journalists.",
"\"Doing so will send a strong message that there will be no impunity for attacks against the media, nor for any serious crimes,\" the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights in Nepal said.",
"Singh wrote for a daily newspaper and reported for a radio station in Janakpur, about 240 km (150 miles) southeast of the capital city, Kathmandu.",
"When she got home from work Sunday night, a group of about 15 men barged into the room she rented at a house and hacked her with \"khukhuris\" -- curved knives traditional to Nepal -- in full view of other boarders, authorities said.",
"\"I am very very shocked,\" said Dharmendra Jha, president of the Federation of Nepalese Journalists, which is leading the protests.",
"\"If the government is not ready to provide any kind of security to journalists, it will be very difficult to do journalism in a free mode.\"",
"The group said it will announce a new phase of protests Wednesday.",
"Authorities do not have a motive for the killing.",
"In some of her articles, Singh spoke out against the dowry system, where a bride's family is forced to give cash and property to the groom's family before the wedding.",
"Also Sunday, a group of men ransacked the house of another journalist in the same region, leaving a cross on her door and telling her it was her turn next, media groups said.",
"Police do not know if the two incidents are related.",
"In recent months, the number of attacks on journalists in Nepal have shot up.",
"The federation released a year-end report, recording 284 incidents -- including three deaths and a kidnapping.",
"Some of the assailants have ties to the Communist Party of Nepal, the largest party in Nepal's coalition government, according to New York-based Human Rights Watch.",
"The party is led by Pushpa Kamal Dahal, or Prachanda -- a man who led a decade-long bloody insurgency before being sown in as prime minister.",
"During the decade-long civil war, Maoist forces under him carried out numerous attacks on journalists they believed were opposed to their cause, Human Rights Watch said.",
"And after he became prime minister, Prachanda issued a public warning to journalists while addressing a massive crowd in Kathmandu: \"Now we will no longer tolerate criticism as we have already been elected by the people.\"",
"Three years ago, Singh's father and elder brother disappeared.",
"Her family has all along accused local Maoist leaders of being behind the disappearances, Jayashi said.",
"Singh, herself, talked about the difficulties of practicing journalism in an interview with the United Nations last year.",
"\"Various armed groups that are mushrooming have been a major challenge for us.",
"We have been compelled to dance to their tunes.",
"...This makes us helpless,\" she said in the interview.",
"\"What do we do? If we don't air the news of their choice, they threaten to kill us.",
"Things have become very, very difficult for us.\""
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"HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) -- Zimbabwe's opposition leader called the cholera outbreak in his country a \"man-made crisis,\" as new figures released Thursday showed the death toll had soared to more than 2,700.",
"Morgan Tsvangirai tours a cholera ward at Budiriro Polyclinic in Harare Thursday.",
"Some 2,755 have died and 48,623 people are suspected to have been infected with cholera since last year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said.",
"Opposition party leader Morgan Tsvangirai, speaking to reporters, pointed a finger at the Mugabe government.",
"\"Cholera in Zimbabwe is a man-made crisis.",
"The problem we have here is coupled with (the) fact of negligence on the part of government to provide the necessary facilities.",
"It shows the collapse of the health delivery system,\" said Tsvangirai.",
"The Movement for Democratic Change leader's comments came after he toured some of the worst affected areas in the country's capital, Harare.",
"Zimbabwe's cholera epidemic, which started in August, has been aggravated by erratic water supplies, shortages of water purification chemicals, broken water and sewer pipes and uncollected garbage.",
"Cholera is an intestinal disease cause by bacteria in contaminated water.",
"The epidemic was followed a month later by a strike by doctors and nurses demanding a review of their salaries.",
"They are demanding that archaic hospital equipment be replaced and that medicines be available in hospitals.",
"The health emergency comes at a time when Zimbabwe is mired in the worst economic crisis it has faced since it gained independence from Great Britain in 1980.",
"Last week, the United Nations' Children's Fund (UNICEF) gave $5 million to Zimbabwe's ailing health sector to help end the industrial action by health personnel.",
"As Tsvangirai was visiting the cholera affected areas, some residents could be seen getting water from the wells and rivers.",
"Most suburbs in Harare have had no water for close to two weeks, forcing residents to depend on shallow pits and rivers for drinking water.",
"The Zimbabwe National Water Authority was quoted by the state-owned media Saturday attributing the dryness to a water pump which had broken-down.",
"The areas particularly affected include the townships of Glen Norah, Glen View and Budiriro.",
"\"I am here with my kids for the last two days,\" said Ennie Musararei, a mother of three at Budiriro clinic.",
"\"It (cholera) just started after we drank water from a well.",
"We thought it was safe to drink since it was covered by a metal sheet.\"",
"President Robert Mugabe's government have now declared cholera a national emergency, so that international organizations such as UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders and Red Cross can gain access.",
"But death toll has continued to increase daily.",
"\"This week alone has witnessed a sudden increase of patients,\" said a nurse at Budiriro clinic.",
"\"I think it is mainly because of the rains and dryness of the suburbs over the past week or so.\"",
"Earlier this month, Zimbabwe's health minister, David Parirenyatwa, said the death toll was likely to increase as the country is in its rainy season.",
"The meteorological office in Zimbabwe has predicted floods in some parts of the country."
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"(CNN) -- Paul Harvey, the legendary radio host whose career sharing \"the rest of the story\" with listeners spanned more than 70 years, has died, according to ABC Radio Networks.",
"Paul Harvey received the Medal of Freedom from President Bush in 2005.",
"He was 90. Harvey died at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, where he kept a winter home, said Louis Adams, a spokesman for the networks.",
"He was surrounded by family members when he died, Adams said.",
"Known for his deliberate delivery and pregnant pauses, Harvey's broadcasts were heard on more than 1,200 radio stations and 400 Armed Forces networks and his commentaries appeared in 300 newspapers, according to his Web site.",
"iReport.com: Share your memories of Paul Harvey .",
"He had been hosting his radio shows part-time for much of the past year, after recovering from physical ailments including pneumonia and the death of his wife, Lynne \"Angel\" Harvey, in May 2008.",
"\"My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and television news,\" said Harvey's son, Paul Harvey Jr., in a written statement.",
"\"So, in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents and today millions have lost a friend.\"",
"Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Harvey began his radio career in 1933 at KVOO-AM there while he was still in high school, his Web site says.",
"He helped clean the station and was eventually was allowed to fill in on air, reading news and commercials.",
"Watch how Paul Harvey Aurandt got into broadcasting » .",
"\"Paul Harvey was one of the most gifted and beloved broadcasters in our nation's history,\" ABC Radio Networks President Jim Robinson said in a written statement.",
"\"As he delivered the news each day with his own unique style and commentary, his voice became a trusted friend in American households.\"",
"Some critics faulted Harvey for the way he seamlessly intertwined news stories with advertisements, which he often read in his own voice in the middle of a story.",
"But his accolades were plentiful -- from his 1990 induction into the National Radio Hall of Fame to receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom from then-President George W. Bush in 2005.",
"\"Paul was a friendly and familiar voice in the lives of millions of Americans,\" Bush said Saturday in a written statement.",
"\"His commentary entertained, enlightened, and informed.",
"Laura and I are pleased to have known this fine man, and our thoughts and prayers are with his family.\"",
"The cause of Harvey's death was not immediately known.",
"He was forced off the air temporarily in 2001 because of a virus that weakened a vocal cord.",
"CNN's Doug Gross contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Somali pirates have turned high-seas kidnappings into a lucrative business, one that netted between $50 million and $150 million last year, a former Navy SEAL told CNN.",
"Attackers hijacked the Maersk Alabama, shown here, formerly known as the Alva Maersk.",
"Kaj Larsen spoke to CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday night about the changing tactics of pirates in Somalia.",
"Below is a transcript of that interview, portions of which have been edited.",
"Cooper: You have spent a fair amount of time there.",
"You have actually met with the pirates, right?",
"Larsen: I did. I met with some of the pirates that were operating out of Port of Mogadishu in 2006.",
"And that was right before this current uptick in piracy that we're seeing so much of right now.",
"Cooper: And why the uptick?",
"Just because now they realize it's so profitable?",
"Larsen: Sure, absolutely.",
"There's an extraordinary incentive to conduct acts of piracy.",
"Last year, they estimate the pirates took in somewhere between $50 million and $150 million in ransom money.",
"It's extraordinary. It's very lucrative. And, obviously, the cheap flow of weapons available in Somalia all contribute to this problem of maritime piracy.",
"See how pirate attacks are skyrocketing » .",
"Cooper: And this is a different situation, because now the USS Bainbridge is on scene.",
"This is the first time an American has been held hostage.",
"But, normally, a whole crew gets taken hostage, and it's basically a negotiation between the company that owns the vessel or the cargo and the pirates.",
"Larsen: Right Obviously, this is a very unique situation and it's developing right now as we speak.",
"So, this is setting new standards and new precedents.",
"My concern during this situation is that the pirates, seeing their first batch of resistance, in the future might be using more aggressive tactics now that they see that some ships are willing to fight back.",
"Cooper: You were a Navy SEAL.",
"What is the procedure in something like this?",
"Larsen: Well, obviously, each situation is very unique, and so they have to balance the use of force with the potential threat of injury to the hostage.",
"Again, this is a unique situation.",
"This is the first time Americans have been taken hostage, so we could see a new precedent being set.",
"Watch how pirates operate off Somalia » .",
"In the past, the U.S. Navy and the other coalition forces and the combined task force in the region has been reluctant to engage with the pirates militarily, for fear that one of the hostages will be hurt.",
"We will see if that continues to be the case here.",
"Cooper: And, basically, I mean, if [pirates are] operating 350 miles offshore, and they're running around, and then they're going around in these little skiffs, do they have a larger boat nearby somewhere in the area? ...",
"They can't go 350 miles offshore in a little skiff, can they?",
"Larsen: No, absolutely not, I mean, although you are seeing improved weather conditions in the Gulf of Aden, which is responsible for the increased in attacks over the past week, 350 miles is a long ways out at sea.",
"So, again, the pirates are becoming increasingly more sophisticated, are actually [using] mother ships in many cases, from which they send out the small speedboats out to both track and then sometimes assault these tanker and these container ships in the gulf.",
"Cooper: How do you think this thing is going to end?",
"Do you have any idea? Larsen: I don't really have any idea.",
"In the past, what we have seen is a classic kidnap-for-ransom hostage negotiation system, where the insurance companies end up paying sometimes millions of dollars for these pirates.",
"In this case, I think the very close presence of a U.S. Navy vessel might ... provide some discomfort to the pirates in the area."
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"(CNN) -- The mother of a 17-year-old Rochester, New York, high school student who vanished over the weekend on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, says she did not give her daughter permission to go on the trip.",
"Brittanee Marie Drexel's mom says she thought she was at the beach in New York, not South Carolina.",
"In an appearance on HLN's Nancy Grace, Dawn Drexel said her daughter, Brittanee Marie Drexel, has never run away.",
"Drexel said the high school junior stayed in touch with her by phone, and she last spoke with Brittanee on Saturday afternoon.",
"\"I asked her what she was doing and she says 'Oh, mom, I'm at the beach.'",
"And it was an 80-degree day in Rochester so, of course, I thought maybe she was at the beach in Rochester with one of her girlfriends that she had said she was staying overnight,\" Drexel said.",
"Watch mom describe daughter's last call » .",
"Drexel said she asked Brittanee to call her later and the girl agreed.",
"\"I said, 'I love you, Brittanee' and she says, 'I love you, mom.'",
"And then we hung up the phone.\"",
"Brittanee is believed to have last been seen Saturday evening, though an unconfirmed sighting may have placed her at a restaurant on Sunday.",
"She was staying with friends at the Bar Harbor Hotel on North Ocean Boulevard, according to police reports."
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"Brittanee Drexel disappears on trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina .",
"Mom says she spoke to daughter but didn't know she was out of state .",
"Brittanee is believed to have last been seen Saturday evening ."
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"Editor's note: Carlos del Rio, MD, is the Hubert Professor and chair in the global health department at the Rollins School of Public Health and professor of medicine in the division of infectious diseases at Emory University's School of Medicine.",
"Del Rio is a native of Mexico and was executive director of the National AIDS Council of Mexico from 1992 through 1996.",
"Dr. Carlos del Rio says U.S. and Mexican authorities deserve credit for their responses to the swine flu outbreak.",
"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The swine flu outbreak that started less than a month ago has caused more than 150 deaths in Mexico and more than 60 confirmed cases across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, with suspected cases in France, Spain, Israel and New Zealand.",
"It is clear that a new virus has emerged that is different enough that the population's previous exposure to influenza viruses and vaccines do not provide immunity.",
"So far, public health authorities are meeting this challenge with strength and preparedness.",
"The Mexican and American federal governments deserve credit for their thorough responses.",
"The major control strategy that has been implemented in Mexico is social-distancing, a range of nonquarantine measures that attempt to reduce contact between persons, such as closing schools, canceling cultural and sports events, and closing museums and parks.",
"In addition, countries are strengthening surveillance, releasing antiviral stockpiles and issuing travel advisories.",
"In the United States, federal officials are working closely with and providing guidance to state and local public health authorities, who have to make decisions about whether to close schools or prevent other large-scale gatherings.",
"The cross-border nature of this outbreak is a strong argument for why the United States should cooperate with and support competent institutions of government in other countries, even during a period of economic uncertainty.",
"The first case of swine flu in the United States during the current outbreak was identified in San Diego County by part of a surveillance program connected with the Naval Health Research Center there, which only began monitoring influenza in 2005.",
"In this program, physicians collect nasal swabs from patients at community clinics on both sides of the border.",
"Only when Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists sent a suspect sample to the mass spectrometer did they discover the new variety of swine flu, according to an article describing the techniques in Science magazine.",
"Two critical questions remain.",
"Why have mortality rates been higher in Mexico?",
"And how should preparations for the regular flu season later this year be modified?",
"Reports from Mexico that the virus has primarily struck otherwise healthy young adults are alarming because seasonal influenza typically affects the very young and very old.",
"Still, preliminary genetic analysis shows that the virus strains isolated from patients in California are identical to those seen in severely ill Mexican patients.",
"It is possible that some of the patients in Mexico, many of whom are dying of pneumonia, are succumbing to secondary infections.",
"Medical historians believe that a large proportion of those who died of the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918 were not killed by the flu virus, but by secondary bacterial pneumonia, which was difficult to treat before the introduction of antibiotics.",
"Thus, enhancing vaccination against pneumonia may prove to be a critical strategy in decreasing influenza mortality during future outbreaks.",
"Additional investigation of those who have died is however, urgently needed to determine the best response strategy.",
"An issue that keeps coming up is the idea of closing the U.S.-Mexico border.",
"Already at various border crossing points, customs authorities are having people who appear sick taken to a secondary inspection area for further evaluation.",
"More systematic monitoring at border crossing and airports such as mouth swabs has been proposed.",
"Is that a good strategy?",
"I would argue that it is not.",
"The U.S.-Mexico border is one of the busiest in the world with millions of people and goods crossing each day.",
"Many items that we routinely use in the United States are produced in Mexico and closing the border would have a crippling effect to the United States.",
"For example, in the event of a serious flu outbreak in this country there would be a need for mechanical ventilator deployments to hospitals.",
"The national stockpile has sufficient ventilators, but the necessary circuits that are needed to operate them are not produced in the United States but in Mexico, so having them come across to this country is critical for taking care of critically ill patients in the United States.",
"The second issue is how to prepare for the coming flu season.",
"During the flu pandemic of 1918, cases began in the spring and then faded away during the summer, only to come back with a vengeance in the fall and winter.",
"Thus, we need to be prepared for an even worse outbreak of swine flu this winter and should not declare victory too soon.",
"Considerable evidence has accumulated that the practice of producing seasonal vaccines in chicken eggs is cumbersome and sometimes ineffective.",
"There is an urgent need for the development of more modern techniques of vaccine production.",
"The National Institutes of Health has been putting its research resources into the fight.",
"In 2007, the NIH created six Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance, located at Emory University, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, UCLA, University of Minnesota and University of Rochester.",
"Sunday's emergency declaration signaled for these centers to devote their resources to monitoring and responding to the swine flu outbreak.",
"Researchers at these centers have developed alternatives to chicken eggs and new delivery methods.",
"Now is the time to put these alternatives to the test, so that countries around the world are fully prepared for the coming flu season and future outbreaks.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Carlos del Rio."
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"Dr. Carlos del Rio: U.S. and Mexico have responded well to swine flu outbreak .",
"He says cross-border cooperation is crucial to successful battle against flu .",
"Key question is why Mexico's illnesses have been more deadly, he says .",
"Del Rio: One factor may be presence of pneumonia in those who died ."
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"SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) -- Predicting the path of a swine flu outbreak is next to impossible, public health officials say.",
"But Dr. Ira Longini has spent more than three decades trying to do just that.",
"Dr. Ira Longini studies simulations of hypothetical influenzas and how they would spread.",
"And Longini says the apparent new strain of swine flu appears to be here to stay.",
"\"We are probably going to have to live with this virus for some time,\" he told CNN.",
"Longini specializes in the mathematical and statistical theory of epidemics.",
"He works at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute at the Hutchinson Research Center in Seattle, Washington.",
"The researcher studies simulations of hypothetical influenzas and how they would spread across the United States.",
"For the moment, he said, there is not enough information about the swine flu that has sickened hundreds in Mexico and about 50 people in the United States to accurately forecast how the disease will travel.",
"But Longini's simulations of a fictional killer flu that were ordered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show the importance of steps health officials can take to prevent further spread of the virus.",
"These measures include \"social distancing,\" or encouraging those sickened with the flu to stay home or seek medical treatment; closing places where groups of people gather; and making anti-flu medications available to large portions of the population.",
"In the simulations, Longini said, these forms of containment reduce the sickness by nearly two-thirds.",
"\"The name of the game is to slow transmission until a well-matched vaccine can be made and distributed.",
"I am fairly optimistic we can do that,\" he said.",
"Watch how computer models simulate an outbreak's spread » .",
"So far, Longini said, it appears that everyone sickened by swine flu in the United States contracted the disease while traveling in Mexico, the apparent epicenter of the outbreak.",
"But he cautioned: \"That could change very fast.",
"Obviously people in these communities could also get on airplanes and go other places or get on buses or cars or trucks and move around.",
"The picture may change very rapidly.",
"Basically, influenza is going to go where people go.\"",
"Health officials agree that the worst may still be yet to come.",
"\"It is too soon for us to say what the spectrum is,\" Dr. Richard Besser, the acting director of the CDC, said Monday on Larry King Live.",
"\"We are going to see cases in this country that are more severe, individuals who are hospitalized, and I would not be surprised if we see deaths in this country.\"",
"Longini said health officials are doing everything they can to mitigate how widely the swine flu spreads in the United States.",
"Even if authorities examined everyone entering the country, Longini said, it would not solve the problem.",
"\"Through simulations and mathematical work we've shown that travel restrictions -- although potentially useful in slowing spread [of swine flu] -- they are not going to stop it,\" Longini said.",
"\"We can screen airline passengers, but there all those asymptomatic or incubating people we would miss.",
"So you really have to deal with these outbreaks locally, everywhere they are occurring.\"",
"Watch how countries are scanning travelers » .",
"Longini said he hopes that as more data come in about the outbreak, it will help to answer questions researchers have about why the swine flu appears more deadly in the Mexico cases than the ones in the United States.",
"Researchers also hope to find out why such a large percentage of fatalities in Mexico are young people whose healthy immune systems usually protect them from the flu.",
"But there is good news, Longini said, at least temporarily, for populations in certain areas.",
"In North America and Europe, summer will soon begin, ending the traditional flu season.",
"Even outbreaks such as swine flu tend to follow standard flu season patterns, he said.",
"Other parts of the world may not be so lucky.",
"\"Timing is terrible for people in the Southern Hemisphere -- places like New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, parts of South America, \"Longini said.",
"\"They are just coming into their flu season.\""
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"Researcher studies how a potential flu outbreak could spread .",
"Authorities taking vital steps to keep outbreak from spreading, he explains .",
"Still, worst of swine flu outbreak may be yet to come, health officials warn .",
"Researcher hopes data will show why outbreak so much deadlier in Mexico ."
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan's military continued its assault Thursday on militants in Taliban-held areas, its chief spokesman told reporters.",
"Pakistani army trucks move military equipment into the troubled Buner district Thursday.",
"So far, 14 militants have been killed in the past 24 hours, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said.",
"The operation is still ongoing in the districts of Dir and Buner, which was recently seized by the Taliban in violation of an agreement with Pakistan's government.",
"Pakistani forces have completely secured Daggar, the main town in Buner and the scene of heavy fighting on Wednesday, Abbas said.",
"The Daggar operation resulted in the deaths of 50 militants, but freed 18 Frontier Corps personnel who had been abducted by militants, he said.",
"Fifty-two of their colleagues are still believed to be held by their suspected Taliban kidnappers.",
"This week's military operation has resulted in more than 180 militant casualties since Sunday, while the military has suffered one death and one injury, according to Abbas.",
"He said he hopes the operation will be completed by the end of the week.",
"Pakistan has asked the United States to supply its forces with helicopters, communication equipment and night vision technology, Abbas said Thursday.",
"Most of this week's casualties happened on Tuesday, when Pakistani fighter jets launched airstrikes, killing at least 70 militants in the Dir district, according to the Pakistani military.",
"The operation is part of the Pakistani army's intensified drive against the Taliban in its restive tribal regions.",
"The Pakistani government has been criticized for not cracking down on militants along its border with Afghanistan.",
"As a result, the U.S. military has carried out airstrikes against militant targets in Pakistan, which have rankled relations between the two countries.",
"The military campaign has apparently not stopped Washington from carrying out unmanned drone attacks on Pakistan's soil.",
"A suspected unmanned aerial vehicle killed six people Wednesday night in the village of Kaniguran in the tribal district of South Waziristan near the border with Afghanistan, Pakistani intelligence sources said.",
"Pakistan has complained repeatedly about what it says are American airstrikes on its territory.",
"The U.S. military in Afghanistan has not commented on the strikes, which typically target Taliban fighters in the border region.",
"But the United States is the only country operating in the region known to have the capability to launch missiles from remote-controlled drones.",
"U.S. President Barack Obama is \"gravely concerned about the situation in Pakistan,\" he told reporters Wednesday night.",
"Speaking at a news conference capping his 100th day in office, Obama said the United States has \"huge national security interests in making sure that Pakistan is stable\" and doesn't end up a \"nuclear-armed militant state.\"",
"But he stressed he was more concerned about the ability of Pakistan's civilian government to \"deliver basic services,\" and not \"that they're immediately going to be overrun\" by the Taliban.",
"Pakistan's recent military crackdown has led to an exodus of civilians from the region.",
"At least 33,000 residents have left their homes in the midst of the recent fighting, according to Amnesty International.",
"Civilians fleeing from Lower Dir in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province join more than 500,000 people already displaced by the fighting, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.",
"The Pakistani military completed its operation to eliminate and expel militants in Dir Tuesday, and is now focusing on the Buner district, Abbas said.",
"About 300 militants entered Buner a few days ago, in violation of the Taliban's recent agreement to leave the district, he said.",
"Buner is about 60 miles from Islamabad, but Abbas said the militants pose no threat of entering the capital.",
"The fighter jets pounded targets in Buner and the Swat Valley in an effort to block the militants' entry and exit points, according to Abbas.",
"CNN's Samson Desta, Ivan Watson, and Nasir Habib contributed to this report."
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"Pakistani military intensifies drive against Taliban in restive tribal regions .",
"Recent military operation has resulted in more than 180 militant casualties .",
"Has not stopped U.S. unmanned drone attacks on Pakistan's soil .",
"Barack Obama \"gravely concerned about the situation in Pakistan\""
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"(InStyle) -- I can't find it anywhere in the Constitution, so maybe there is a first lady dress code buried in an obscure addendum to the Voting Rights Act of 1965, since every mistress of the White House for the last four decades has chosen a wardrobe that follows a particular one with near pathological devotion.",
"President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama arrive in Prague, Czech Republic, in early April.",
"No sooner does her inaugural ballgown get spirited away to the Smithsonian, then out it comes: The First Lady Suit -- that tailored, multibuttoned blazer over a skirt straighter than an Ionic column in a primary, patriotic or tastefully unobjectionable color.",
"So did someone not give Michelle Obama the memo?",
"Because during these first 100 days, our newest first lady has banished every version of this silhouette as if they were all designed by the House of Dick Cheney.",
"Instead, Mrs. Obama has defined with remarkable acuity what flatters a tall, broad-shouldered and curvaceous working woman who knows exactly who she is and where she is going.",
"With an enviable eye for color and layering, she has fashioned a riveting parade of on- and off-the-shoulder dresses, cardigans, cinched trenches, leggings, wide-legged trousers and full skirts, working them in intense florals or unexpected hues such as chartreuse and emerald.",
"InStyle.com: Michelle Obama's first 100 Days of style .",
"In addition, like every woman who gets a kick out of dressing up, she knows the power of accessories -- a cool flat boot, a wide belt, a statement necklace.",
"The thrilling result?",
"Women across this country (and the world) are exclaiming almost daily, \"Look at that print!",
"I love that color!",
"Where can I get that sweater?\"",
"Watch how the first lady has become a style icon » .",
"What's more, not only does our first lady proudly stride with the confidence and warmth of a modern American woman, but the wardrobe she steps out in boasts relevance, comfort, and -- dare we say it?",
"-- sex appeal.",
"InStyle.com: Try on Obama's hairstyle .",
"The fashion industry may have occasionally sniped, but come on, does anyone really give a damn if it's appropriate to wear a cardigan to meet the queen?",
"What does count is that each time we've caught that man of hers watching her walk into a room during their first 100 days, we have witnessed both a dynamic new first couple -- and a wife whose husband unashamedly only has eyes for her.",
"The clothes are cool, but even better is the fact that Michelle Obama has brought romance back to the White House.",
"Get a FREE TRIAL issue of InStyle - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright © 2009 Time Inc. All rights reserved."
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"InStyle's Hal Rubenstein says Michelle Obama has dropped first lady uniform .",
"She has parade of dresses, cinched trenches, wide-legged trousers, full skirts .",
"Outfits come in intense florals or unexpected hues like chartreuse and emerald .",
"Obama knows power of accessories: cool flat boot, wide belt, a statement necklace ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A man who Los Angeles police believe raped and murdered dozens of women decades ago was arrested by cold case investigators this month after a computer matched his DNA to evidence from two killings in the 1970s.",
"John Floyd Thomas Jr. may have begun his killings as far back as 1955.",
"John Floyd Thomas Jr., 72, may have begun his killings as far back as 1955 and he could be one of the worst serial killers in United States history, according to Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton.",
"\"We have yet to reach the depths of what he has done,\" Bratton said Thursday.",
"Until his April 2 arrest, Thomas was a Los Angeles insurance adjuster.",
"Police now call him the \"Southland Strangler\" -- named for the geographical section of Los Angeles County where they suspect he killed at least 30 women and raped many more.",
"Thomas, who sits in a Los Angeles jail, has been charged with two killings -- in 1972 and 1976 -- but prosecutors will likely add more cases when he faces arraignment on May 20, Bratton said.",
"While Thomas was arrested \"a number of times between 1955 and 1978\" for sex crimes and burglaries, detectives did not have the technology to identify him as a suspect when the region was terrorized by a series of killings then blamed on the \"Westside Rapist,\" Bratton said.",
"Watch why the suspect may be L.A.'s most prolific serial killer » .",
"Officials, using new computer databases and software, are now \"looking to see what the patterns were,\" said Los Angeles Police Deputy Chief Charlie Beck.",
"\"A lot of work has yet to be done,\" Beck said.",
"Bob Kistner had just begun his law enforcement career in 1976 when his great aunt, 80-year-old Maybelle Hudson, was beaten, raped and strangled in the garage of her Inglewood, California, home.",
"He had just retired as a sergeant with the Long Beach, California, Police Department when he got the call recently that investigators linked Thomas to her murder.",
"\"I waited my entire career for that phone call,\" Kistner said.",
"It was a routine call to Thomas from an LAPD officer last fall that led to the break in the case.",
"Thomas, a registered sex offender, is required by California law to provide a DNA sample for inclusion in the state's database.",
"Because of a backlog of cases, Thomas was not asked until October to report to a patrol station to have the inside of his cheek swabbed.",
"\"He was very cooperative,\" the patrolman who took the sample said.",
"The California Department of Justice called LAPD cold case detectives on March 27 to tell them the DNA came up as a match to rape kit evidence collected from Ethel Sokoloff, who was 68 in 1972 when she was found beaten and strangled in her Los Angeles home.",
"Those detectives had sent the biological evidence from the Sokoloff case to a state lab in 2002 as part of their review of about 6,000 unsolved murders in Los Angeles that happened between 1960 and 1996.",
"DNA analysis in 2004 concluded that Sokoloff's killer also beat, raped and killed Elizabeth McKeown, 67, in 1976, Beck said.",
"The murders of three other older women -- including Maybelle Hudson -- were also linked by DNA to a common killer, he said.",
"\"Because of Thomas's criminal background, the close proximity of his homes to murder locations, similar victim descriptions [white elderly females] and other evidence that suggests the type of modus operandi used by the suspect, detectives strongly believe Thomas is very likely the suspect in 'The Westside Rapist' cases,\" a police statement said.",
"Thomas is single, although he has been married five times, police said.",
"While he served about 12 years in prison between 1955 and the late 1970s for his previous convictions, he has no record since his last arrest in 1978, police said.",
"Deputy Chief Beck said the growing use of DNA databases and computers to match them to crime evidence will likely lead to more cold case killers being identified."
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"Thomas arrested April 2 and is charged with killing two women .",
"72-year-old could be linked to dozens of other killings and assaults ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- On May 4, 2007, Kara Kopetsky, a 17-year-old high school junior in Belton, Missouri, was not having a good day.",
"Kara Kopetsky, 17, left school early in Belton, Missouri, on May 4, 2007, and hasn't been seen since.",
"She forgot one of her textbooks and called home and asked her mom to drop it off at the school office.",
"She also asked her mother to wash her uniform so she could work the 4 p.m. shift at Popeye's Chicken.",
"Later that morning, Kara had an argument with one of her teachers in class, according to police and her family.",
"Frustrated, she left campus about 10:30 a.m., ditching school for the rest of the day.",
"A school surveillance video shows her walking out.",
"But no one can say which way she went, or whether she got into a car.",
"It was the last time anyone saw or heard from her.",
"Police say there has been no activity on Kara's cell phone since shortly after she walked out of school.",
"They followed some pings from the phone, conducted some searches, but found nothing significant.",
"Beyond that, they aren't commenting.",
"Watch an update on the case » .",
"Kara's stepfather says the cell phone's long silence makes him suspicious.",
"\"This doesn't make any sense,\" said Jim Beckford.",
"\"Kara was on her cell phone sending texts constantly.",
"Her cell phone bill was typically 80-100 pages long.\"",
"When Kara didn't come home from school as usual, her family -- mother Rhonda, stepfather Jim and stepbrother Thomas -- grew worried.",
"They filed a missing persons report later that afternoon.",
"Police told them they believed Kara was a runaway, and that she'd come back on her own in a few days.",
"Two years later, her family hasn't heard a word from Kara.",
"She left behind most of her belongings -- money, clothes, iPod and a new carton of cigarettes.",
"Her bank debit card was left in her school locker and her bank account, with $150 from her recent paycheck, remains untouched.",
"According to police in Belton, the case is being actively investigated.",
"But with no certain evidence of foul play, police continue to characterize Kara's disappearance as an endangered and missing adult case.",
"The state of Missouri considers Kara Kopetsky to be an adult because she was 17 when she disappeared.",
"Belton Police Capt.",
"Don Spears said police are looking at several persons of interest, but haven't narrowed their investigation to focus on a single suspect.",
"Her family says she has no history of running away.",
"They say they fear that she was abducted when she left school that day.",
"\"She is a very beautiful girl and so we often warned her to be careful, but like any teen, she had an attitude that she was invincible,\" her stepfather said.",
"About a month after she disappeared, Kara's case was eclipsed by another sensational case -- the abduction and slaying of Kelsey Smith.",
"Smith was taken from a store parking lot in Overland Park, Kansas, and her body was found in the Missouri woods, six miles from Kara's home in Belton.",
"A suspect was charged, pleaded guilty, and is serving a life sentence.",
"Police in Belton and Overland Park compared notes but could find no connection.",
"According to family and police and Kara's MySpace profile, she had an on-again, off-again boyfriend.",
"He lived in her neighborhood, was 18, and attended the same high school but dropped out earlier the spring Kara disappeared.",
"Kara was trying to end the relationship, friends told police.",
"It is unclear whether the two saw each other the day Kara vanished.",
"A $30,000 reward is offered for tips leading to the whereabouts of Kara Kopetsky or the arrest of anyone responsible for her disappearance.",
"Police and family urge people to call the Belton Police Department's tip-line at 816-474-TIPS.",
"Kara is described as 5 feet 5 inches tall and 125 pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes."
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"School surveillance video shows Kara Kopetsky walking out .",
"Her cell phone shows no activity after 10:30 a.m. on May 4, 2007 .",
"A $35,000 reward is offered for information.",
"Call 816-474-TIPS ."
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"(CNN) -- The Sri Lankan army overran two Tamil Tiger rebel positions in the country's north on Tuesday, the military reported on its Web site.",
"Recently captured rebel weapons stacked up in the former Tamil stronghold of Kilinochchi.",
"The rebels \"suffered double blows, losing two heavily fortified defense positions as ... troops made predawn incursions at identified terror strong points located south of Valayanmadam today,\" the Ministry of Defense said.",
"The claims of military victories came a day after Sri Lanka ordered an end to combat operations against the rebels by curtailing \"the use of heavy-caliber guns, combat aircraft and aerial weapons which could cause civilian causalities,\" a statement from the Presidential Secretariat said.",
"A rebel Web site, Tamilnet.com, reported an \"intense barrage of heavy weapons\" through Monday evening.",
"The rebel site accused the military of staging a ground offensive, \"firing artillery shells fitted with cluster munitions, multi-barrel rocket launcher (MBRL) fire and heavy mortar fire from many directions on the northern side of Mu'l'li-vaaykkaal.\"",
"The Tiger leadership has asked the international community to \"pressure the Sri Lankan government to reciprocate\" on a cease-fire offer proposed last week.",
"The United States, the United Nations, the European Union and India have called for a cease-fire.",
"Last week, India's foreign secretary and national security adviser met with Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa to express their concerns about the situation in the north, including casualties among civilians.",
"India has a large Tamil population that sympathizes with the plight of Tamils in Sri Lanka.",
"The foreign ministers of two nations are due in Sri Lanka on Wednesday -- David Miliband of the United Kingdom and Bernard Kouchner of France.",
"Carl Bildt of Sweden was originally scheduled to make the trip with his counterparts, but was not granted a visa, so he was forced to cancel, the Swedish Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.",
"In what amounts to a diplomatic protest, Sweden will recall its ambassador to Sri Lanka for consultations.",
"A government-imposed deadline for the Tigers to surrender passed a week ago.",
"Tens of thousands of displaced civilians currently remain wedged in a dwindling swath of territory controlled by the Tigers along the country's northeastern coast.",
"Government troops say they have rescued some 40,000 civilians trapped in the area, but a U.N. refugee agency said Friday that a wave of \"fresh displacement\" now exceeds 100,000 people.",
"The Sri Lankan military says up to 20,000 civilians continue to be held hostage by Tamil \"terrorists,\" adding that its forces will continue humanitarian operations to rescue them.",
"Fifty metric tons of relief supplies -- which landed in Colombo on Monday -- will be sent by UNICEF to the north to help displaced residents.",
"UNICEF, which called the situation in the north a \"catastrophe for children,\" said the displaced lack food, water and basic medical supplies.",
"The rebels estimate the number of civilians still in the territory at more than 160,000.",
"The Tigers have been fighting for an independent state in Sri Lanka's northeast since 1983.",
"As many as 70,000 people have been killed since the civil war began, and the group has been declared a terrorist organization by 32 countries, including the United States and the European Union.",
"-- CNN's Sara Sidner contributed to this story."
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"Claims came a day after Sri Lanka ordered end to combat operations .",
"Sri Lanka: Forces ordered to cease use of heavy-caliber guns, combat aircraft .",
"Rebels say fighter bombers continued to bomb civilian targets after announcement ."
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"(CNN) -- A court in Saudi Arabia has granted an 8-year-old girl a divorce from her 47-year-old husband, after twice denying the divorce request previously, local media reported Thursday.",
"The marriage sparked condemnations around the world from human rights groups and U.S. and other government officials when it first came to light in December.",
"Local media, which is highly regulated by the Saudi government, reported that the court in the city of Onaiza approved the divorce decree Thursday, and the divorce is final.",
"A source at the court told the Saudi daily newspaper Al-Watan that the divorce \"came after a series of pleas made by a number of officials in the region to the husband.\"",
"CNN efforts to reach court officials, the husband and the girl's father have been unsuccessful.",
"According to the attorney for the young girl's mother, the father of the girl had arranged the marriage between his daughter and a close friend of his to settle his debts with the man.",
"When the mother went to court to try to get the marriage annulled, Saudi judge Habib al-Habib rejected the request on a legal technicality.",
"The judge ruled that the mother -- who is separated from the girl's father -- was not the child's legal guardian and therefore could not represent her in court, according to the mother's lawyer, Abdullah al-Jutaili.",
"However, the judge required the girl's husband to sign a pledge that he would not have sex with her until she reaches puberty, al-Jutaili said.",
"The lawyer said in the original marriage agreement, the father of the girl stipulated that the marriage would not be consummated until she was 18.",
"The judge also ruled that the girl could file a petition for a divorce when she reached puberty, al-Jutaili said.",
"The young girl lives with her mother, the attorney said, and was never told that she was married.",
"When the initial petition to annul the marriage was rejected, the mother appealed the verdict to an appeals court in the Saudi capital of Riyadh.",
"The appeals court declined to certify the original ruling, in essence rejecting al-Habib's verdict, and sent the case back to him for reconsideration.",
"Under the complicated Saudi legal process, the appeals court ruling meant that the marriage was still in effect but that a challenge to the marriage was ongoing.",
"Earlier this month, the original judge refused for a second time to annul the marriage.",
"Soon after that decision, Saudi Arabia's justice minister told Al-Watan that he planned to enact a law that will protect young girls from such marriages.",
"The law will place restrictions on the practice to preserve the rights of children and prevent abuses, Justice Minister Mohammed Al-Issa was quoted as saying.",
"Additionally, al-Issa said there would be a study of a system that will include regulations for the marriage of minors and everything related to such unions, the newspaper reported.",
"No details on the restrictions or regulations were mentioned.",
"The minister did not say whether child marriage would be abolished.",
"Responding to the justice minister's comments and the possibility of a new child marriage law, al-Jutaili told CNN at the time, \"this is what we requested from day one, and we know that Saudi officials are working so hard on resolving this issue.\"",
"Al-Jutaili believes that such a law would help not only his defendant but many other Saudi minors facing a similar problem.",
"In Washington Monday, Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs William Burns called the marriage a human rights abuse.",
"\"Child marriage is, unfortunately, still common in much of Saudi Arabia and we have voiced our concern about this practice at the highest levels,\" he told a conference on U.S.-Saudi relations.",
"\"We were encouraged by reports that the Justice Ministry had begun to review the legal age of marriage.\"",
"After the divorce was denied for a second time, the head of the United Nations Children's Fund issued a statement expressing concern about the case.",
"UNICEF Executive Director Ann Veneman said, \"the right to free and full consent to marriage is recognized in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.",
"Consent cannot be free and full when either party to a marriage is too young to make an informed decision.\"",
"The issue of child marriage has been a hot-button topic in the deeply conservative Saudi kingdom recently.",
"While rights groups have petitioned the government for laws to protect children from such marriages, the kingdom's top cleric has said that it's OK for girls as young as 10 to wed. \"It is incorrect to say that it's not permitted to marry off girls who are 15 and younger,\" Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Sheikh, the kingdom's grand mufti, said in January, according to the regional Al-Hayat newspaper.",
"\"A girl aged 10 or 12 can be married.",
"Those who think she's too young are wrong, and they are being unfair to her.\"",
"Al-Sheikh reportedly made the remarks when he was asked during a lecture about parents forcing their underage daughters to marry.",
"\"We hear a lot in the media about the marriage of underage girls,\" he said, according to the newspaper.",
"\"We should know that sharia law has not brought injustice to women.\"",
"Sharia law is Islamic law, and Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam called Wahhabism."
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"Child bride wins divorce hearing at third attempt, local media reports .",
"Her case attracted attention of the U.N. and governments around the world .",
"Her father reportedly arranged the marriage to settle his debts .",
"Saudi justice minister says he plans law to protect young girls from such marriages ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Prince Charles visited the Vatican on Monday for his first meeting with a pope since his 1996 divorce from Princess Diana.",
"Pope Benedict XVI is flanked by Prince Charles and his wife Camilla during their meeting at the Vatican.",
"The heir to the UK throne was accompanied by his second wife, Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, who wore the mandatory modest black dress and veil which the Vatican requires for wives of dignitaries who meet the pope.",
"The 20-minute meeting was \"cordial,\" the Vatican said in a statement afterwards.",
"Prince Charles's accession to the throne was likely to be an unspoken subtext of the meeting, an expert on the prince told CNN.",
"\"The biggest thing on Prince Charles's agenda is the preparation for his coronation,\" said Christopher Wilson, author of \"The Windsor Knot: Charles, Camilla and the Legacy of Diana.\"",
"Charles would like the pope to attend personally, unlikely as that may be, given the religious divide between London and Rome, Wilson said.",
"\"He will expect a high-profile Roman Catholic presence in Westminster Abbey,\" where he will be crowned, Wilson argued.",
"\"The combined heads of state come from everywhere.",
"Every democratically elected head of state will be invited.",
"It bigs up your coronation if you can get the highest Roman Catholic to come.\"",
"The meeting between prince and pope came days after the 500th anniversary of the crowning of Henry VIII, the English king who broke with the Roman Catholic Church and established the Church of England because he wanted to divorce.",
"It was Prince Charles's first visit to the Vatican since he went to the funeral of Pope John Paul II four years ago, and his first meeting with a head of the Roman Catholic Church since 1985.",
"There are multiple factors complicating his relationship with the Vatican, Wilson pointed out.",
"Not only is he divorced, which the Roman Catholic Church disapproves of, but so is Camilla -- and her children are being raised as Catholics because their father is one.",
"A centuries-old British law forbids Catholics or their spouses from holding the throne.",
"The Prince of Wales \"is trying to break down the breach between the Vatican and the House of Windsor,\" Wilson said.",
"\"It's a path-smoothing exercise.\"",
"Additionally, he said: \"Prince Charles likes very much to be photographed with heads of state.",
"He's not the head of state himself.",
"It adds luster to his royal presence.\"",
"Charles and the pope were expected to discuss issues such as interfaith dialogue and climate change -- subjects to which Prince Charles has devoted himself.",
"The pair exchanged gifts.",
"Benedict gave Charles a gold pontifical medal and an antique engraved copper plate of St. Peter's Basilica dating from the 16th century.",
"Charles gave Benedict a set of 12 porcelain plates with floral design of the plants and flowers that grow at his country estate in Gloucestershire.",
"Afterwards, Prince Charles met Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarciso Bertone and Vatican foreign affairs minister Archbishop Dominique Mamberti, while Camilla received a private tour of the Sistine Chapel.",
"Charles and Camilla are on a tour of Italy and Germany at the request of Britain's Foreign Office, Clarence House said.",
"The European Union director of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Matthew Rycroft, cited \"the prince's personal passion and personal engagement over the years on the issue of climate change\" as a major reason for the trip, a Clarence House statement said."
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"Charles's first visit to Vatican since he attended funeral of Pope John Paul II ."
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"VERO BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- The Rev.",
"Michael Massaro says he has a few aches and pains, but a good night's sleep has done him some good as he recovers from being attacked Saturday with a knife in a confessional at his church.",
"The Rev. Michael Massaro is recovering from two stab wounds that required 14 staples to close.",
"It was one of the most harrowing weekends in the 28 years he's been a Roman Catholic priest, Massaro said.",
"But it won't stop him from hearing confessions.",
"\"We're at the mercy of the people we serve,\" Massaro told CNN.",
"\"We can't live in fear. God has asked us to live in trust.",
"If it's going to happen again, it's going to happen again, but that's not going to prevent me from doing God's work.\"",
"Massaro had just finished hearing confessions in his Florida church when he was stabbed twice in the back by a woman who later told police Massaro is the Antichrist.",
"\"It was paralyzing, like a nightmare, and I just feel like I woke up from it.",
"It was so quick and sudden,\" Massaro said in a telephone interview.",
"Vero Beach police arrested Josephine Gatchell in connection with the attack.",
"The 57-year-old suspect is being held in the Indian River County Jail.",
"She is being held without bail.",
"Gatchell is scheduled to be arraigned on June 12.",
"She has not yet been appointed a lawyer, prosecutors and the public defender said.",
"\"She believed [Massaro] was the Antichrist and it was her duty to go there and injure him,\" police spokesman John Morrison said.",
"Massaro said he thought he had one last confession to hear at about 12:15 p.m. on Saturday.",
"A woman was waiting for him, apparently wanting to be be the last one in.",
"\"I was in the confessional, putting my coat on, and felt a piercing sensation in my back left side,\" the priest recalled.",
"\"I looked up and she was standing there, and I felt it again in my back.",
"Then I realized I was stabbed and my hand was covered with blood.\"",
"Massaro said his alleged attacker stared at him but never said a word.",
"\"I ran and got to the car and hoped I could make it to the hospital before I passed out.",
"I was worried about becoming unconscious.",
"Thanks be to God that I didn't hurt anyone driving,\" he said.",
"An emergency room doctor told police that the knife \"went through muscle, a few veins and chipped a rib,\" according to an arrest affidavit.",
"The blade missed vital organs by two to three centimeters, the affidavit said.",
"Massaro underwent surgery to repair the damage.",
"Doctors used 14 staples to close the \"T\"-shaped wounds.",
"The priest feels compassion for the woman who attacked him, and he is turning the other cheek.",
"\"We have to continue to pray to do the church's work.",
"To love, and most of all to forgive,\" he said.",
"\"To be sure she doesn't do this again, she needs proper medical care.",
"No one in their right mind would do this.\"",
"It was the second run-in with Gatchell at Holy Cross Catholic Church, according to police and church workers.",
"She was arrested in January, records show, accused of breaking off a piece of a religious statue inside the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament.",
"She also allegedly resisted arrest and reached for the officer's weapon.",
"She was confronted by Deborah True, the parish manager.",
"\"I took it away from her and asked her why she did that,\" True told CNN.",
"\"She said she did it because it was from her husband's funeral, forty years ago, and Father Massaro stole it, and he was the Antichrist,\" she said.",
"Massaro said he recognized Gatchell as he ran from the attack.",
"\"As I was running away from her, I realized who she was,\" he said.",
"\"She didn't make any efforts to come after me.",
"I was still in a state of shock.\"",
"At the hospital, Massaro was able to pick Gatchell out of a photo lineup, police said.",
"She was not at home when police went to question her, according to the arrest affidavit.",
"Later, police received an anonymous tip that she was staying elsewhere.",
"When police arrived, Gatchell answered the door and allegedly stated, \"You know who I am, and I know why you're here.\"",
"Gatchell told detectives that \"she remembers going over to Holy Cross (church)....and stabbing Mr. Massaro,\" according to the affidavit.",
"When asked what she stabbed him with, the suspect replied, \"It was a big knife,\" the affidavit said.",
"Police say she told them that the knife was in three different places, but it was never located.",
"Vero Beach Police say that Gatchell appears to be a troubled woman.",
"\"When you go back a second time, that raises more concerns.",
"Her violence escalated the second time,\" said police spokesman Morrison.",
"And just for the record, \"I am not the Antichrist, that I know of,\" Massaro said with a laugh."
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"Massaro says he forgives the woman, who appears to be troubled .",
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"Editor's note: How would you rate President Obama's first 100 days?",
"You'll get a chance to make your opinion known at 7 p.m.",
"ET Wednesday on the CNN National Report Card.",
"Supporters say President Obama is tackling an aggressive agenda, while critics say he's leaving Republicans behind.",
"(CNN) -- More than two years ago, a junior senator with presidential aspirations stood on the steps of Illinois' Old State Capitol in Springfield and warned of politicians who fail to live up to expectations.",
"\"Too many times, after the election is over, and the confetti is swept away, all those promises fade from memory, and the lobbyists and the special interests move in, and people turn away, disappointed as before, left to struggle on their own,\" then-Sen. Barack Obama said as he announced his intentions to pursue the Democratic nomination.",
"Now, after 100 days in office, observers are asking the same of him: Has President Obama lived up to the expectations that candidate Obama created?",
"\"What Obama has successfully done is keep his persona intact, which is a man of deep family values and a core moral center.",
"And I think that people are learning to trust Obama that when he talks, he's not just articulate, but he's shooting straight,\" said presidential historian Doug Brinkley.",
"Obama won the White House campaigning on a message of hope and a promise of change.",
"As he emerged a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, he pushed an ambitious agenda, vowing to overhaul health care, education and energy policy.",
"But as the severity of the economic meltdown took hold and Obama moved into the White House, his inspirational rhetoric was injected with a sobering dose of reality.",
"Obama encouraged patience and cautioned that, \"change doesn't happen overnight.\"",
"In his first 100 days, Obama laid the groundwork for many of his campaign promises and faced criticism that he's trying to do too much.",
"\"Nobody will ever be able to accuse him of being an idle man during his first 100 days,\" Brinkley said.",
"\"He's clearly showing himself to be a progressive in the tradition of Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson, with the moral core of Jimmy Carter.\"",
"So far Obama is showing himself to be \"the same guy that we had on the campaign trail,\" Brinkley said.",
"Given the items on his agenda, Obama is living up to expectations, CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said.",
"\"The public is patient and is not expecting to see a quick turnaround in the economy,\" he said.",
"\"I count 10 major items -- jobs, health care, education, energy, housing, banks, automakers, deficit reduction, taxes and the war in Afghanistan.",
"Plus, a pledge to take up immigration reform and climate change in the near future.",
"Any one of those things would be a significant agenda,\" he said.",
"But some Republicans say the president has failed when it comes to his pledge to reach across the aisle.",
"After Democrats moved ahead with a $787 billion stimulus bill that garnered no Republican support in the House and just three Republican votes in the Senate, \"That's when it became clear to me that all of this post-partisan talk and working down the middle and working together was a ruse,\" said John Boehner, House minority leader.",
"Obama's approval ratings remain high -- hovering around 65 percent.",
"Those numbers are on par with where President Reagan and President Carter stood at this point in their presidencies.",
"But one year later, their approval ratings dropped to about 40 percent.",
"Obama has maintained his popularity, Republican strategist and CNN contributor Mary Matalin said, but he's lost support from Republicans and some independents \"because what he is not is what he was perceived to be in the campaign -- a centrist.\"",
"Schneider said Obama's agenda -- which includes massive government spending -- represents a challenge to the Republicans' core principle of smaller government.",
"Republicans haven't responded to Obama's outreach, and \"it's causing serious political damage to their party, he said.",
"Watch: Is bipartisanship dead? ...",
"Obama is not personally polarizing in part because he is cautious about divisive social issues, \"but his economic policies are very divisive,\" Schneider said.",
"\"Obama is the mirror image of Bill Clinton ...",
"Voters either loved him or hated him,\" he said, noting that after his first two years, Clinton's policies became more moderate and consensus driven.",
"The National Republican Senatorial Committee last month released an ad accusing Obama of backpedaling on numerous campaign promises, calling him out for signing a spending bill with thousands of earmarks, mishandling the AIG bonus scandal and failing to rein in government spending.",
"PolitiFact, a Web site that has been keeping track of Obama's campaign promises, reports that Obama has kept 27 promises, compromised on seven, broken six, stalled on three, has 67 in the works and has yet to take action on another 408.",
"But one Republican who broke ranks to endorse Obama and also spoke at the Democratic convention says he's had no regrets.",
"\"As president, in surprisingly short order, he has moved rather decisively to implement new directions,\" said former Iowa Rep. Jim Leach, who served as a Republican member of the House for 30 years.",
"And on areas where Obama hasn't been 100 percent in line with his campaign promises -- such as softening his stance on NAFTA and slightly extending his timeline for troop withdrawal -- Leach said Obama is making adjustments \"in a very appropriately adaptive way.\"",
"\"It is inconceivable that a thinking individual can agree with the president or anyone in public office 100 percent of the time,\" he said, adding that he thinks Obama has some prospect of \"potentially going down as one of the great presidents in American history.\"",
"Rep. Lincoln Davis, D-Tennessee, who declined to endorse Obama before his party's convention, said Obama has met expectations thus far.",
"\"I think every person who runs for office -- whether it's a local office, statewide office, runs for president -- we all have ideas, we all have visions, we all have a hope,\" Davis said.",
"\"But then acting on those is sometimes more difficult than others.",
"But I do believe the president, during the campaign, made his visions known ... and I think he has certainly lived up to those.\"",
"Republican strategist and CNN contributor Ed Rollins said if he were a Democrat, he might give Obama an \"A\" on his performance.",
"\"I think the guy has had a great start.",
"He's pushing an agenda that obviously he ran on.",
"He's lived up to most of his promises.",
"You know, he's a big personality, and I don't diminish that,\" he said.",
"\"I think the country wants a president they feel comfortable with.",
"A long, hard path ahead, and hopefully, some of the stuff he's thrown out there will work because we're spending a ton of taxpayers' money,\" he said, noting that as a Republican he gives Obama a \"B.\"",
"Brinkley said it's somewhat unfair to hold the president to a 100-day litmus test because \"it takes a while to get settled in.\"",
"\"He's doing a lot of bold things for as short a period of 100 days,\" he said, pointing specifically to Obama's economic bailouts.",
"But, he said, there's the large caveat that only time will tell how these bold moves will play out."
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"\"Nobody will ever be able to accuse him of being an idle man,\" historian says .",
"GOP strategist says Obama not acting like the centrist he was during the campaign .",
"Obama's agenda represents a challenge to GOP principles, analyst says ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- How does the American public feel about the war in Afghanistan?",
"In a word, wary. U.S. forces have been engaged in fierce fighting to oust the Taliban in Afghanistan.",
"President Obama on Friday announced his strategy to fight terrorism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, a plan that includes more troops, new legislation, improved troop training and added civilian expertise.",
"\"The United States of American did not choose to fight a war in Afghanistan.",
"Nearly 3,000 of our people were killed on September 11, 2001,\" Obama said Friday.",
"\"We have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan,\" he said.",
"Stressing that \"the safety of people around the world is at stake,\" Obama said the \"situation is increasingly perilous\" in the region in and around Afghanistan, where the United States has been fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban for more than 7½ years after attacks in New York and at the Pentagon.",
"Nevertheless, the American public has been wary about the war in Afghanistan, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll conducted in February.",
"Watch CNN's Bill Schneider break down the numbers » .",
"Last month, Americans were almost evenly divided between those who support the war and those who oppose it, the poll showed, with 47 percent in favor and 51 percent opposed.",
"Opposition to the war in Afghanistan is more muted than opposition to the war in Iraq, but it's not so muted among Democrats.",
"Two-thirds of Americans overall oppose the war in Iraq, but 64 percent of Democrats oppose the war in Afghanistan.",
"The anti-war movements in Vietnam and Iraq helped define what the Democratic Party stands for.",
"Watch: Is Afghanistan Obama's Vietnam? ...",
"\"If we don't learn from our Iraq experience, we are doomed to repeat it,\" Rep. Lynn Woolsey, D-California, said on the House floor Thursday.",
"Why are Americans wary about Afghanistan?",
"The recession. Iraq War fatigue.",
"And frustration. Only 31 percent of Americans believe the United States is winning the war in Afghanistan.",
"Fifty percent believe the United States is winning in Iraq -- the highest number in at least five years.",
"But Americans still want to get out of Iraq.",
"Last month, when President Obama said he would send 17,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan, the public was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt.",
"Democrats were willing to go along with the president, but they were less enthusiastic than Republicans .",
"A solid majority of Americans believe the United States can win a military victory in Afghanistan, but Afghanistan has become a political war.",
"Winning depends, not just on what the United States can do, but also what Afghanistan and Pakistan can do.",
"Americans have far less confidence in them.",
"The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll surveyed 1,046 adult Americans by telephone on February 18-19, 2009.",
"The sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points."
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"Americans almost evenly divided on opinion of Afghanistan war, poll shows .",
"President Obama says goal is to \"disrupt, dismantle and defeat al Qaeda\"\n50 percent believe the United States is winning in Iraq, poll shows .",
"Americans wary about Afghanistan because of recession and Iraq, Schneider says ."
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"Editor's note: With fears of a swine flu pandemic rising daily, CNN Pentagon producer Larry Shaughnessy remembered a batch of letters from his grandfather, a World War I soldier who battled the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-1919.",
"Martin \"Al\" Culhane, left, is pictured with his older brother, Frank, around 1918 or 1919.",
"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- \"I'm coming, I'm coming For my head is bending low I hear those gentle voices calling Old Black Joe\" As World War I rages in Europe, fresh U.S. Army soldiers pass the time on a train ride to to Camp Forrest, Georgia.",
"\"The boys are just starting to sing,\" Martin Aloysius Culhane wrote on September 6, 1918, to his friend back home.",
"\"They've gotten back to 'Old Black Joe' so far.\"",
"Stephen Foster's classic song from the Civil War is about the death of slaves who had become his friends.",
"But Culhane, known as \"Al,\" and the soldiers who sang along could not know how much death would hunt the recruits on that train, most of whom never made it to Europe to fight in the Great War.",
"They would find themselves in the deadliest influenza pandemic in history.",
"Culhane's letters to his older brother Frank and his long-time \"chum\" Clif Pinter are a young soldier's firsthand account of life as a draftee private and how he coped with a disease that would haunt Army camps around the United States and eventually infect people around the world.",
"Some estimates say as many as 50 million people were killed by what's called the Spanish influenza in 1918 and 1919, far more than the number killed in combat during the war.",
"Three weeks after the train trip to Georgia, Culhane, a 21-year-old clothing salesman from Chicago, Illinois, writes again.",
"Already the flu occupies his thoughts.",
"Learn more about the current swine flu » .",
"\"Received a nice letter from Phil Byrne he reports he is getting along fine, is feeling better than he has ever before.\"",
"Byrne, a friend from Chicago, was one of the early survivors of the Spanish flu.",
"Other members of the Byrne family took ill a few months later, according to the letters.",
"In the same letter he mentions how the Army was trying to protect the troops at Camp Forrest: .",
"\"Since noon today our camp has been under quarantine to prevent an epidemic of Spanish influenza.",
"We have had no cases thus far but it is the intention of the medical officers to prevent any case of the disease from making an appearance.",
"All the men who have even slight colds have been put into separate barrack which, of course, were immediately christened 'the TB ward' by the rest of the company.\"",
"That same day, September 28, 1918, he wrote his brother Frank, a Navy sailor at home awaiting orders, \"Well the Spanish Influenza has made an appearance here and we are under strict orders no visits to Chattanooga, we are certainly the hard luck guys when it comes to this quarantine proposition.\"",
"At first the threat of Spanish flu is just an inconvenience for Culhane: \"I am just about fed up with staying in a district about a block square for three weeks.",
"There is no canteen in the quarantine district and we have a hell of a time getting small supplies.\"",
"Just six days after complaining about the inconvenience, a brief but frightening note: \"Receive the enclosed letter for your information then see that Frank gets it unknown to the rest of the family.\"",
"What Culhane didn't want his mother, sister and younger brother to know was that he was in the infirmary with the Spanish flu.",
"He asks his friend Clif to write often and encourage letters from \"my friends, without of course, telling them that I am a little under the weather.\"",
"His euphemism hid the fact that in some places more than 30 percent of people who contracted Spanish flu died.",
"In the United States the mortality rate was lower, but still a devastating 3 percent.",
"It was a crisis for the Army.",
"Military bases, with thousands of men from all over the country in tightly packed barracks, were fertile breeding grounds for the flu, especially one as easily spread as this one.",
"And unlike most flu strains that mostly strike the elderly, the very young or the sick, Spanish flu hit healthy, young adults like Army draftees.",
"Just three days after telling his friend about being sick, Culhane wrote that he was feeling better.",
"\"I am still in quarantine but will be released today.",
"I am feeling great and the two day's rest has done me a world of good.",
"I have done nothing at all but sit in the shade, read and write letters.\"",
"His recovery from the Spanish flu was swift, but the very next day, October 7, 1918, he wrote to give \"all the details of the death of a very good friend, my Bunkie, Thomas Birdie.",
"His body will go north today, I think,\" Culhane wrote, asking Pinter to attend the wake.",
"\"At his side, say a few prayers for the repose of his soul.\"",
"When not writing about the flu, Culhane dropped none-too-subtle hints about wanting care packages full of cookies from home.",
"And he regularly questioned why other friends didn't write.",
"He also worried that he was \"neglecting the ladies.\"",
"He pelts his friend Clif with questions about Ursula (\"Her Majesty,\" he jokingly refers to her), Ella (the young woman to whom he promised a prized golf club) Ida (\"I had a long letter from Ida Flynn.",
"Boy! I will have a job on my hands when I get home\") and the Marys (Mary Rose, Mary English, Mary Anne).",
"While Culhane writes about and to a lot of young ladies, there is no sign in the letters which one, if any, held a special place in his heart.",
"Still he worried about one young man named \"Hank\" who remained in Chicago.",
"\"Keep the ladies amused by all means, but I look to you to protect my interests.",
"Hank is too darn nice a chap to be safe around the ladies.",
"However, if he seems to get extra strong I will write a note and have him made Admiral of the Arctic Circle.\"",
"After recovering from the flu, Culhane bemoans the fact that war was about to end.",
"\"It is almost over now and thirty days will see at least a cessation of hostilities.",
"Xmas will see peace.",
"I will never see France and as long as that is impossible I might as well be out of the Army as soon as it is over.\"",
"Nine days later, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month the war ended.",
"And just four days after the fighting in Europe ended, the letters from Camp Forrest stopped.",
"Al Culhane was sick again.",
"This time he was taken to U.S. General Hospital #14 at Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.",
"And he couldn't keep the latest illness a secret from his family back home in Chicago.",
"A Catholic chaplain wrote the family that he was sick and not able to write himself.",
"When he was well enough, he wrote Pinter, \"I don't know just what I have but it felt like old fashioned grip or perhaps 'The Flu.'\".",
"It took about two weeks before he was out of the Fort Oglethorpe hospital and back at Camp Forrest.",
"He had twice survived the deadliest flu in history and lived to write home about it.",
"After his second recovery his concerns turned to getting back to Chicago by Christmas.",
"\"Clif I have seen my discharge all written out and from that moment on my usefulness as a soldier ceased.\"",
"But again illness got in the way.",
"This time it was a completely different one: \"Measles has broken out in our company and we are quarantined.",
"Did you ever hear of harder luck in all your life?\"",
"Culhane didn't make it back to Chicago for Christmas.",
"But he eventually did return home alive and well.",
"He never did make it to France, but traveled the United States extensively with his wife, Evelyn, a woman never mentioned in his letters home, but someone he'd known since they went through First Holy Communion together.",
"As for Clif Pinter, who saved the letters, he and Al Culhane remained \"old chums\" for life.",
"After Pinter's death, his son passed the letters on to Al's daughter, Dorothy Clarke, who passed them onto Al's grandchildren, including Lawrence Aloysius Shaughnessy, who works for CNN's Pentagon unit and occasionally writes stories about soldiers for CNN.com."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- College football's perennial armchair-quarterback argument over the need for a clear-cut national champion came to Capitol Hill Friday.",
"College football teams play in the BCS for the national championship trophy.",
"The House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection held a hearing to dissect the Bowl Championship Series, asking whether the model needs to be tweaked, overhauled or done away with altogether.",
"Four witnesses testified at the morning hearing, including championship series coordinator John Swofford and Alamo Bowl President Derrick Fox; both of whom defended the current system, though Fox conceded that \"no system is perfect and the Bowl Championship Series is not perfect.\"",
"Mountain West Conference Commissioner Craig Thompson and Boise State Athletic Director Gene Bleymaier testified that they would like to see the system revamped.",
"Many critics say they want college football to have a playoff system to ensure that a champion is clearly defined.",
"Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, called the Bowl Championship Series format unfair and perhaps took it one step further.",
"\"You should either change your name to BES for Bowl Exhibition System or just drop the C and call it the BS system, because it is not about determining the championship on the field.\"",
"Both sides were cordial but opinionated.",
"Fox said he would prefer Washington not get involved.",
"\"Those who don't like the current system will say that's the way of the world, but we don't believe that government should have any role in promoting a demise of the bowl games.\"",
"Currently, 11 college conferences and three independents compete in the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision -- formerly Division I-A.",
"Six of those 11 conferences are guaranteed spots in the four Bowl Championship Series games.",
"Schools from conferences that critics say are unfairly deemed as low profile are then left to fight their way into those prestige games.",
"They share in significantly less of the series money and have less of an opportunity to challenge for the national title.",
"President Obama is one of the proponents of a college football playoff.",
"In an interview with ESPN in November, Obama said he's had just about enough of the Bowl Championship Series.",
"\"I'm fed up with these computer rankings and this, that and the other.",
"Get eight teams -- the top eight teams right at the end.",
"You got a playoff.",
"Decide on a national champion,\" Obama said.",
"Before heading out early to catch a flight, Barton made it clear that he expects to see college football change its ways or risk having lawmakers introduce legislation to impose change for them.",
"\"I think there is better than a 50 percent chance that if we don't see some action in the next two months on a voluntary switch to a playoff system that you will see this bill move,\" he said."
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"Perennial argument is that a playoff system would be a better way to decide .",
"House committee hears testimony from officials, coaches on both sides ."
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"(CNN) -- Kansas Gov.",
"Kathleen Sebelius was sworn in Tuesday night as secretary of Health and Human Services.",
"Kathleen Sebelius dives into discussing the swine flu at the White House after being sworn in.",
"She was sworn after she was confirmed by the Senate in a 65-31 vote.",
"The timely vote puts Sebelius in office as the Obama administration is up against its first public health outbreak.",
"She steps into the role as swine flu numbers climb worldwide.",
"As of Tuesday morning, at least 90 cases had been confirmed, including 50 in the United States.",
"Until her confirmation, the White House, which declared a public health emergency Sunday, was dealing with its first crisis without a secretary.",
"But the administration said it was equipped to handle the situation.",
"There are still no appointees in place for any of the department's 18 key positions.",
"Related: White House health team not complete .",
"In most cases where a position is awaiting Senate confirmation, that job is filled by a career civil servant in an interim capacity.",
"The Obama administration has named five nominees for the open positions.",
"Sebelius met several obstacles during her confirmation hearings.",
"The Kansas governor came under fire for her ties to Dr. George Tiller, a late-term abortion provider.",
"Tiller and his staff attended a 2007 reception Sebelius held at the governor's mansion in Topeka.",
"Sebelius originally failed to account for donations she received from the doctor.",
"Sebelius also revealed in March that she recently paid nearly $8,000 in back taxes and interest.",
"She said she had errors in her 2005, 2006 and 2007 tax returns.",
"Sebelius, 60, is the daughter of former Ohio Gov.",
"John Gilligan, who led that state from 1971 to 1975.",
"A two-term Democratic governor in a Republican-leaning state, she previously served as a state insurance commissioner and oversaw Kansas' Medicaid program.",
"She has been credited with boosting health care assistance for the poor during her tenure.",
"A number of leading social conservatives have criticized Sebelius for her record on abortion, citing, among other things, her veto as governor of legislation that would have tightened abortion regulations in Kansas.",
"In vetoing the measure last April, Sebelius wrote that the bill was problematic because it included no exceptions for pregnancies that endanger a woman's life and it allowed individuals to seek court orders preventing a woman from obtaining an abortion, even if the procedure was necessary to save her life.",
"Some Republicans, however, have strongly defended Sebelius.",
"Former Senate GOP leader Bob Dole, also from Kansas, testified on Sebelius' behalf in March, arguing that her record had proven her ability to work in a bipartisan manner.",
"\"Sebelius' strength is that she understands health care [and is] willing and able ... to bring parties together in very critical areas,\" he said.",
"Kansas GOP Sens.",
"Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback, as well as Republican Govs.",
"Arnold Schwarzenegger of California and Jon Huntsman of Utah commended her selection.",
"Former Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota, Obama's first choice for secretary of health and human services, withdrew on February 3 after controversy erupted over his tax records and over his work in a field that some consider lobbying."
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"Kathleen Sebelius sworn in after being confirmed by 65-31 vote .",
"White House says health team is equipped to handle swine flu situation .",
"Sebelius has come under fire for ties to late-term abortion doctor .",
"Sebelius was two-term Democratic governor in Kansas, a Republican-leaning state ."
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"UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- The 15th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda brought American U.N.",
"Ambassador Susan Rice to tears as she reflected on her personal memories surrounding the slaughter.",
"U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice recalls her time in Rwanda working for the Clinton administration.",
"Rice visited Rwanda as a staff member in former President Bill Clinton's National Security Council six months after the ethnic cleansing.",
"She explained how even months after the violence she encountered decomposing bodies at one of the massacre sites.",
"\"For me, the memory of stepping around and over those corpses will remain the most searing reminder imaginable of what our work here must aim to prevent,\" she said Tuesday at a special commemorative event at United Nations headquarters in New York.",
"She emotionally concluded her remarks, expressing how \"We bow our heads to mark the memory of those who were slain.",
"And we bow our heads to mark the sorrow of all who stood by.\"",
"The mass killings began on April 6, 1994, when tribal Hutu militia members attacked their tribal Tutsi countrymen after the plane of then-President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, was shot down.",
"Within 100 days, some 800,000 people were murdered.",
"In addition to Rice, various dignitaries, ambassadors, artists, U.N. officials and genocide survivors gathered Tuesday to mark the tragic circumstances that began 15 years ago.",
"U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reminded the audience how the Rwandan genocide continues to haunt \"our collective conscience\" and that \"the prevention of genocide is a collective responsibility.\"",
"Ban encouraged the world community to remember its shared duty to prevent future catastrophes in the name of humanity and in honor of the memory of those who died.",
"The United Nations created a Special Representative for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities in 2004.",
"President Obama also released a statement coinciding with Tuesday's anniversary.",
"Obama praised survivors for their remarkable strength, but emphasized the tragedy should always be remembered because each victim \"had their own story, their own family, and their own dreams.\""
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"Obama says tragedy must always be remembered ."
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"(CNN) -- Five people were killed Thursday after a man tried to attack the Dutch royal family during a Queen's Day celebration by crashing his car near the royal family's bus, Dutch police said.",
"A car is pictured after crashing into the crowd waiting for the visit of the royal family in Apeldoorn.",
"Authorities are not releasing the name of the man, but said they have charged him with with trying to attack the royal family.",
"Twelve people were injured in the incident in the Dutch town of Apeldoorn, about 45 miles east of Amsterdam, police spokeswoman Esther Naber told CNN.",
"Crowds had lined the streets to see Queen Beatrix and her family ride by in an open-top bus during the Netherlands' annual holiday.",
"As the bus moved along, a black hatchback zoomed past it.",
"The crowds were behind barriers off the road, but security officials and journalists, including many cameramen, were in the road as the car went by.",
"The car crashed into the low metal railing around a column on the side of the road.",
"The vehicle appeared heavily damaged even before the crash, but the reason for that was unclear.",
"There was no one other than the driver in the car at the time, Naber said.",
"Members of the royal family saw the crash and gasped, then quickly sat down as the bus continued driving.",
"The driver is in the hospital, badly injured, Naber said.",
"He is among the five seriously hurt -- three men and two women.",
"Queen's Day is a national holiday in the Netherlands, the Netherlands Antilles, and Aruba.",
"The tradition started in 1885 and celebrates the birthday of the queen.",
"Although Queen Beatrix's birthday is January 31, she officially celebrates her birthday April 30, according to the Dutch government.",
"Queen's Day is known for its free market all over the country, where anybody is allowed to sell things in the streets.",
"Other activities include children's games and musical performances.",
"Were you there? Send us your video, images .",
"The day is marked with the color orange all over the country as a reference to the colors of the royal family, who come from the House of Orange-Nassau."
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"Driver, among the badly hurt, is charged with trying to attack Dutch royal family ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- An al Qaeda suspect alleged to have been involved in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania that killed 11 people faces war crimes charges, the Pentagon announced Monday.",
"Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani is shown in a photo posted by the FBI in 2004.",
"The bombing in Dar es Salaam, which also wounded hundreds, was one of two carried out nearly simultaneously on August 7, 1998.",
"One in Nairobi, Kenya, killed 213 people.",
"Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, from Tanzania, faces nine charges, six of them offenses that could carry the death penalty if he is convicted by a military tribunal.",
"He was captured by Pakistan in 2004 and is being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.",
"In a written announcement, the Pentagon said Ghailani is \"charged with the following substantive offenses: murder in violation of the Law of War, murder of protected persons, attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, intentionally causing serious bodily injury, destruction of property in violation of the Law of War and terrorism.",
"In addition, he is charged with conspiracy to commit all of the above offenses.",
"\"Ghailani is further charged with providing material support to terrorism.",
"This charge alleges that after the bombing, Ghailani continued in his service to al Qaeda as a document forger, physical trainer at an al Qaeda training camp, and as a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden.\"",
"The charges say he purchased bomb components, scouted the embassy with the suicide bomb driver, met with co-conspirators, and fled to Karachi, Pakistan, one day before the bombing.",
"The convening authority for military commissions, Susan J. Crawford, will determine whether probable cause exists for a trial by military commission, said Brig.",
"Gen. Thomas Hartman of the Office of Military Commissions.",
"For Ghailani to ultimately be sentenced to death, the 12-member jury would have to unanimously find him guilty, determine that aggravating factors apply, and concur on the death sentence, Hartman told reporters at the Pentagon.",
"\"Everything has to be unanimous.\"",
"\"And then there are four levels of post-trial review, which is an extraordinary set of rights available,\" he said.",
"In December, 1998 -- a few months after the embassy bombings -- Ghailani and three other fugitives were indicted in U.S. District Court in New York.",
"It is not known whether he may ultimately face a federal trial.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian, faces nine charges .",
"Al Qaeda-linked suspect could get death sentence from military tribunal .",
"U.S. Embassy in Kenya bombed almost same time on August 7, 1998 ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Carrie Prejean, the Miss USA contestant from California who declared her opposition to same-sex marriage on the pageant stage, will star in a new $1.5 million ad campaign funded by the National Organization for Marriage.",
"Miss California USA Carrie Prejean has gotten support from many same-sex marriage opponents.",
"Prejean appeared Thursday at a news conference in Washington to unveil the ad, called \"No Offense.\"",
"Prejean was roasted by same-sex marriage advocates after she stood up for what she called \"opposite marriage\" (marriage between a man and a woman) when responding to a question from celebrity blogger Perez Hilton during the pageant.",
"But she's also become a fresh-faced standard-bearer for same-sex marriage opponents, who have rallied to her defense.",
"\"Marriage is good,\" Prejean said at the news conference.",
"\"There is something special about unions of husband and wife.",
"Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.\"",
"\"She is attacked viciously for having the courage to speak up for her truth and her values,\" the National Organization for Marriage said in a press release.",
"\"But Carrie's courage inspired a whole nation and a whole generation of young people because she chose to risk the Miss USA crown rather than be silent about her deepest moral values.\"",
"\"This vision of marriage is not hateful,\" Prejean said.",
"\"It's not discriminatory. It's good.\" Although she claimed that her view represents that of the majority of Americans, Prejean said she has no plan \"on getting into politics anytime soon, that's for sure.\"",
"According to the group, the ad will call \"gay marriage advocates to account for their unwillingness to debate the real issue: gay marriage has consequences.\"",
"The Miss California USA TV ad is the group's second.",
"Its first, called \"A Gathering Storm,\" ran in several states and featured actors issuing ominous warnings about the threats posed by same-sex marriage.",
"Executive directors and producers of the Miss California USA pageant released a statement Wednesday lamenting that Prejean had taken on such a \"polarizing\" issue.",
"\"We are deeply saddened Carrie Prejean has forgotten her platform of the Special Olympics, her commitment to all Californians and solidified her legacy as one that goes beyond the rights to voice her beliefs and instead reveals her opportunistic agenda,\" the group said.",
"CNN's Peter Hamby and Alan Duke contributed to this report."
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"Carrie Prejean publicly opposed same-sex marriage during Miss USA pageant .",
"National Organization for Marriage: Prejean \"attacked viciously\" for speaking out ."
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"(CNN) -- Police are examining grainy hotel surveillance video and following up on new leads, including a reported sighting, in the case of a 17-year-old girl who traveled to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, for spring break last week and then disappeared.",
"Brittanee Marie Drexel's mother says she thought her daughter was at a beach in New York, not South Carolina.",
"The possible sighting of Brittanee Drexel was on a bus Wednesday morning in the Myrtle Beach area, according to police, who later showed photos of her to passengers.",
"As investigators try to build a timeline of the events leading to Brittanee's disappearance Saturday night, they are also scrutinizing hotel security video for signs of a young woman in distress, or other clues.",
"Brittanee's mother, Dawn Drexel, told HLN's Nancy Grace that she had forbidden the Rochester, New York, high school junior from going to Myrtle Beach, a popular destination for high school and college students on spring break.",
"Although they stayed in touch by phone and spoke on Saturday, Drexel said she believed the girl was in Rochester when she actually was in Myrtle Beach.",
"\"I didn't have any idea that she was going to do this,\" Drexel said.",
"\"I do trust my daughter, and she needed to cool down a little bit because she was upset that I wasn't going to let her go.\"",
"Drexel said her daughter rode there in a car with several friends.",
"She thinks Brittanee used money she had earned and borrowed to finance her trip."
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"Brittanee Drexel, 17, went to Myrtle Beach, S.C., without mother's permission .",
"Rochester, N.Y., high school junior last seen on Saturday night ."
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"Editor's note: Dina Habib Powell, global head of corporate engagement at Goldman Sachs, served as U.S. assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs from 2005 to 2007.",
"Dina Habib Powell says there are encouraging signs the world is ready to invest in empowering women.",
"NEW YORK (CNN) -- As we mark International Women's Month in March, it is encouraging to see that the movement to recognize the vital role that women play in families, nations and economies has been building for more than a decade and that developments in the past few years have shown that real progress has begun to take hold.",
"On the heels of International Women's Day, President Obama said Monday, \"we will not sow the seeds for a brighter future or reap the benefits of the change we need without the full and active participation of women around the world.\"",
"He also recently announced the creation of a new position, ambassador-at-large for global women's Issues, at the State Department.",
"To fill this critical role, the president nominated Melanne Verveer, a widely respected women's advocate and former top aide to then first lady Hillary Clinton.",
"Verveer was a founder of Vital Voices Global Partnership, an organization committed to empowering women and recently co-chaired by Secretary Clinton and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas.",
"There has also been very recent progress on Capitol Hill.",
"Last month, the U.S. Senate created a Foreign Relations subcommittee that will focus on the global status of women, led by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California.",
"The efforts have been a bipartisan priority for our leaders.",
"In 2008, then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice successfully led the effort in the U.N. Security Council to officially recognize rape as a weapon of war.",
"And in 2001, Laura Bush used the first presidential radio address ever given by a first lady to focus international attention on the plight of women in Afghanistan and used her influence to protect and empower women around the world.",
"Critical strides are also being made globally.",
"In Rwanda, a country devastated by genocide, women have become a key part of the nation's rebirth.",
"Under the leadership of President Paul Kagame, more than half of the parliament is made up of women.",
"In Liberia, President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf made history when she became the first female president on the African continent.",
"In the Middle East, Kuwait has emerged as a leader in women's suffrage and political participation.",
"And in the United Arab Emirates, women such as Sheikha Lubna Al Qasimi, minister of foreign trade, have been trailblazers for progress throughout the region.",
"This social change is being promoted at the United Nations, where Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently noted that the protection, education and empowerment of women and girls are among the most important ingredients to achieving all other Millennium Development Goals.",
"Such consensus should not be surprising as study after study has found that investing in the education of women improves lives.",
"Every extra year of girls' education can reduce infant mortality by 5 to 10 percent.",
"In Africa, children of mothers who receive five years of primary education are 40 percent more likely to live beyond age 5.",
"And multicountry data show educated mothers are about 50 percent more likely to immunize their children than uneducated mothers are.",
"But one of the most important developments of recent years has been the increasing amount of research that shows investments in women can offer not only social benefits, but also real economic growth.",
"A growing body of evidence highlights the economic advantage of educating and empowering women.",
"The private sector has seized on this data.",
"There is now broad consensus that investing in women is not only just good social policy, it is \"smart economics,\" as Bob Zoellick, president of the World Bank, says.",
"Toward that end, the World Bank has convened a Private Sector Leaders Forum with companies committed to these issues, such as Standard Chartered, Cisco, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, Carlson and Nike.",
"My own firm, Goldman Sachs, published two critical pieces of research, \"Womenomics\" and \"Women Hold Up Half the Sky,\" which found that investments in women -- through increased education and labor force participation -- can lead to real economic growth in developed and developing countries.",
"Specifically, this research found that a 1 percentage point increase in female education raises the average level of gross domestic product by .37 and raises annual GDP growth rates by .2 on average.",
"Such findings led to the development of 10,000 Women, an initiative that is working with a global network of leading academic and nonprofit partners to provide women at home and abroad with quality management and entrepreneurial education.",
"This education is helping to create a greater number of female-owned small and medium enterprises, and a new generation of leaders poised to have exponential impact.",
"One recent graduate of the program, Tuokpe Esisi, a fashion designer from Nigeria, has already increased her revenues, and immediately invested a portion of her profits to provide tutors for the illiterate male tailors she employs.",
"This not only positions her enterprise for greater growth, but is also a perfect demonstration of the multiplier effect of investing in women.",
"Organizations such as Women for Women International, Camfed and the International Center for Research on Women have long touted this multiplier effect and are supported by private-public partnerships dedicated to the promotion of women leaders.",
"For example, the State Department, with the help of Vital Voices, instituted a mentoring program for the past four years with Fortune's Most Powerful Women.",
"The program pairs leading U.S. executives -- such as Ann Moore (Time Inc), Pat Woertz (ADM), Helene Gayle (Care) and Anne Mulcahy (Xerox) -- with rising female entrepreneurs in developing countries.",
"At the dawn of the 20th century, Egyptian poet Hafez Ibrahim said: \"When you educate a woman, you create a nation.\"",
"Nearly a century later, the cause of women's empowerment has never been more important.",
"As New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof recently put it, gender inequality is \"the dominant moral challenge we face in the 21st century.\"",
"This challenge also presents an opportunity we cannot afford to squander.",
"We should seize this moment and this momentum.",
"There is tremendous work to be done, but history has shown us that women will not let us down.",
"They will take up the challenge and build up their families, their villages and ultimately all our nations.",
"The opinions expressed in this column are solely those of Dina Habib Powell."
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"Both parties in the U.S. are taking steps to invest in the role of women, she says .",
"She says studies show that more education decreases infant mortality .",
"Investing in women's education leads to increases in economic growth, she says ."
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"(CNN) -- Lectures, slide shows and notes are often boring, but people are using technology to find entertainment in these unlikely places.",
"Spoof notes of \"Star Wars\" are scribbled into a fun online \"pencast.\"",
"Some use high-tech pens to track presentations.",
"Others share PowerPoints in slide show form online.",
"These technologically spiced-up presentations seem to be getting more attention these days.",
"They're also creating buzz about what the future of presentations might hold.",
"Consider \"pencasts,\" which are made using the Pulse SmartPen and specially gridded paper, both sold by the California startup Livescribe.",
"The pen writes like an ordinary pen but also has a voice recorder, and it \"notes\" (so to speak) which notes were taken at which point in the recording.",
"Some quirky SmartPen presentations come off as comedy sketches.",
"One popular presentation muses about how George Lucas might have come up with the idea for Star Wars.",
"Some university students love the technology because they can record and play back what their professor was saying at an exact point in their notes -- which is especially useful when you can't read your own writing.",
"And many professors are all for it, too.",
"\"I feel like this is one of those 'Rear View Mirror' moments in which a new technology comes into our lives with enormous potential and we just don't know what to do with it yet,\" blogs Michael Wesch, a cultural anthropology and digital ethnography professor at Kansas State University.",
"\"We think of it in terms of what we know (pen and paper) and fail to recognize the potential.\"",
"That potential -- for entertainment and serious uses alike -- can be gleaned from pencasts posted on the Livescribe Web site's community section, which is about a year old.",
"The pencasts posted there have collectively received more than 1.5 million views.",
"Soon, it will be easier to embed pencasts on other sites, like personal blogs, the company says.",
"Slide shows are further along in popularity.",
"A startup called SlideShare launched in late 2006 with the idea of allowing people to easily share their PowerPoint presentations.",
"Its site had more than 15 million visitors last month, and its 2008 contest for the best presentations showed off the form's potential.",
"The best are far removed from the dull bullet-point presentations you might have fallen asleep to.",
"Many use dramatic images, striking design and memorable phrases.",
"Former Vice President Al Gore developed his presentation on the planet's environmental challenges into the Academy Award-winning documentary and best-selling book \"An Inconvenient Truth.\"",
"Last year's top SlideShare presentation, called \"Thirst,\" highlights the looming water crisis and has nearly 200,000 views.",
"Others are more light-hearted.",
"The No. 2 spot (with more than 60,000 views) went to a presentation called \"Foot Notes.\"",
"It shows pictures of the narrator's feet in various places she's been (like on cobblestone corridors in Prague and a dance floor in Chicago), interspersed with inspiring quotes related to feet and walking.",
"Finally, for many people, the most dreaded, boring form of communication of all is the lecture.",
"But then, how to explain the popularity of the TED videos?",
"TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design.",
"The conference started in the mid-'80s and has become a networking event of sorts for the world's best and brightest.",
"Dozens of speakers give presentations of about 20 minutes each -- the perfect duration for a juicy \"media snack.\"",
"TED.com started introducing TEDTalks to the public for free in July 2006, and by the following year, there were more than a hundred talks dating back to 2002.",
"Broken down into dozens of themes, today they're popular fodder for video iPods.",
"In one, the amputee athlete and model Aimee Mullins talks about how her many pairs of artificial legs often beat having a single pair of regular ones -- some make her taller, others are works of art.",
"In another, Jill Tarter, an astronomer and director of the Center for SETI Research, discusses how insanely large the universe is and what a \"waste of space\" it would be if life on Earth were indeed all there is.",
"It's hard to watch a handful of TED videos and not feel your perspective broadening.",
"That helps explain how, despite the lecture format, TEDTalks has become hugely popular.",
"A few months ago, the videos surpassed the 100 million views mark -- not bad for a bunch of lectures."
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"SmartPens bring audio and written notes together .",
"Growth in online applications makes slide shows and lectures more interesting .",
"Success of TED lectures means educational content can be popular ."
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"BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- An Iraqi soldier fatally shot two American soldiers and wounded three others on Saturday, the U.S. military said.",
"A man lies in a hospital after a roadside bombing near Kirkurk on Saturday.",
"Three Iraqis were killed.",
"The shooter was killed when U.S. soldiers returned fire, Maj. Derrick Cheng told CNN.",
"The incident took place at a combat outpost just south of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, where there has been a strong presence of anti-U.S. militants, and it underscored the dangers for U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces in that city.",
"A second gunman also fired on other U.S. soldiers at the outpost and fled, said Cheng, a spokesman for the U.S.-led Multi National Division-North.",
"Iraq's Interior Ministry said the gunman was a soldier in training who was standing close to U.S. soldiers when he aimed his firearm at them and began shooting.",
"There have been similar incidents of men in Iraqi security force uniforms in the Mosul area opening fire on U.S. troops.",
"In February, insurgents dressed as Iraqi police officers killed a U.S. soldier and an interpreter in the city.",
"Asked whether there seems to be a rise in such attacks, Cheng replied, \"We still view these as isolated incidents either by individuals posing as Iraqi Security Forces or members acting out on their own.\"",
"\"These events do not represent the overall relationship or partnership U.S. forces have with our Iraqi counterparts.\"",
"Overall, violence and attacks are down in Iraq, but despite improvements in the big picture, the U.S. military is concerned with hot spots such as Mosul.",
"Maj. Gen. David Perkins, MNF-Iraq spokesman, told reporters on Friday that the city remains a danger.",
"He said the U.S. military is studying whether American combat troops scheduled to withdraw from urban centers in Iraq by June 30 should actually remain in the diverse metropolis -- populated by Sunni Arabs, Kurds, Christians and others.",
"Perkins said al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) militants \"are transitioning and becoming more and more concentrated ... mainly in Mosul and in Baghdad.\"",
"\"What we have always said with regards to al Qaeda is that strategically for AQI to win they have to win Baghdad and for them to survive they have to hold on to Mosul and you can see that by how they are conducting their attacks.\"",
"In the last couple of weeks, he said, militants have focused their activity on Baghdad, and attacks in Mosul have dropped somewhat.",
"\"But there is still a lot activity.",
"This is probably the main area we are looking at that could possibly result in U.S. forces being there,\" he said of Mosul.",
"\"Probably more so than any other place.\"",
"\"Of all the places in Iraq, it is the area that you would most likely possibly see a very similar U.S. presence to what you see now.",
"But only if Iraqis want that.\"",
"U.S. troop fatalities in Iraq last month reached 18, the highest of the year.",
"However, the number of monthly Iraqi troop deaths have plummeted since earlier in the war.",
"Also on Saturday, Iranian forces targeting Kurdish rebels shelled a village in Iraq, an official from Iraq's Kurdish region said.",
"Forces used helicopters to attack the village and shelled it with artillery.",
"The village is just over the Iranian border in Iraq's Sulaimaniya province -- a Kurdish region.",
"No casualties were reported.",
"Iran and Turkey long have targeted Kurdish separatist rebels operating in northern Iraq.",
"Meanwhile in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, three civilians were killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their vehicle on Saturday, police said.",
"It is not known who the bomb might have been targeting, but the incident reflects the hostilities in the oil-rich and ethnically diverse city."
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"Iraqi officials say shooter was soldier-in-training who opened fire at a training facility .",
"Shootings underscore the dangers for U.S. troops and Iraqi security forces in Mosul .",
"Iranian forces attacked Kurdish village in Iraq; 3 civilians killed in Kirkuk ."
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"On CNN's \"State of the Union,\" host and chief national correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on the issues affecting communities across the country.",
"This week, King traveled to New Hampshire, where diner patrons shared their thoughts on President Obama and the economy.",
"The Tilt'n Diner hosted all the major presidential candidates during the primaries in 2008.",
"TILTON, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Kate O'Leary voted for Barack Obama and began the year full of energy.",
"But her hope is giving way these days to a sense that some things never change.",
"\"I trust his motives,\" she said of President Obama.",
"\"I feel like he is an honorable guy, I am not sure if he can do it.",
"That's the problem.\" Too much too soon is one of her worries.",
"Too much politics as usual is another.",
"Add in too much bailout money and Kate O'Leary is more sober now than she was when Obama took the oath of office.",
"Across from O'Leary sat Debbie Lurvey, who took a job at the Tilt'n Diner after losing her job in the mortgage business.",
"\"It was a forced unemployment because of the economy,\" Lurvey said.",
"\"So, you know, I decided that it was best to move on to something a little more stable.\"",
"O'Leary and Lurvey are among those who think the economy is going to get worse before it gets better.",
"But our third guest for our weekly diner conversation, Jim Wells, isn't so sure.",
"\"I think most of it is psychological,\" said Wells, a Republican who believes consumers need to be more confident.",
"\"The secret out of a recession like this is to spend money.",
"And you have got to spend your own, you can't expect somebody else to spend it for you.\"",
"He makes the distinction between consumer spending and what he sees as too much government spending.",
"\"We are going to have to pay the bill in another two or three years and it is going to be scary when it happens,\" Wells said.",
"All three agreed one thing missing from Washington is a spirit of cooperation and compromise.",
"Lurvey said the pain of losing her job and dealing with foreclosure have taught her there are some things the government can't do.",
"\"It is a good time to get back to what this country was made on -- it's the family,\" she said.",
"\"And you know I think for awhile we were all going crazy and overspending and living beyond our means and this has kind of been a reality check for most people.\""
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"Republican Jim Wells believes consumers need to be more confident .",
"Three diners says Washington is missing a spirit of cooperation, compromise .",
"Living beyond means has been a \"reality check\" for the country, Debbie Lurvey says ."
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"The swine flu, also known as the H1N1 virus, is all over the news.",
"A string of cases have been reported across the United States, as well as across the globe, with Mexico the hardest hit country, so far.",
"Older kids, who may be scared but hide it, should be reassured that parents and health officials are on top of it.",
"It's easy to freak out amid these disturbing reports, but the truth is you're probably doing everything you need to do to protect your family.",
"\"Parents should be aware of what public health officials are saying, and then just be extra vigilant about the precautions they'd normally take to prevent the spread of germs,\" says Joseph Bocchini, M.D., chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics committee on infectious diseases and pediatrics chair of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport.",
"No. 1 on the list: washing hands more frequently.",
"So take a deep breath, put down the surgical mask, and read on for all information you need to know.",
"Parenting.com: Cold and flu old wives' tales .",
"Signs and symptoms .",
"Indicators of swine flu are not unlike those for regular old run-of-the-mill flu.",
"What makes this virus different from typical flu is that more serious complications, such as pneumonia, might occur more often.",
"Also, says Bocchini, this is a new strain of flu, and no one in the population would be expected to be immune.",
"One of the biggest concerns for officials is simply that a lot of people could get sick at the same time.",
"Take heart in knowing that our government health officials are doing everything they can to make sure the country's prepared.",
"In the mean time, your job is to know how to spot the signs.",
"If you or your child are experiencing any of the following, call your doctor.",
"He or she may want you to come in and be tested.",
"Parenting.com: Interactive symptom checker .",
"• fever (above 100.4 for babies 3 months and younger, and 101.1 for everyone else), plus .",
"• cough . • sore throat .",
"• intense body aches .",
"• headache . • chills . • fatigue . Some people have reported diarrhea and vomiting, too.",
"Pregnant women are at extra risk for complications even with regular flu, according to Bocchini, and small children have a higher rate of hospitalization.",
"Both expectant women and moms of kids under 2 should be extra careful about taking action quickly.",
"Parenting.com: How to keep nosy, germy strangers away from your baby .",
"When to head to the ER . If your child demonstrates any of the following symptoms, it's time to seek emergency care: .",
"• Fast or troubled breathing .",
"• Bluish skin color .",
"• Refusal to drink fluids .",
"• Difficulty waking up and/or interacting .",
"• Being so irritable that the child does not want to be held .",
"* Flu-like symptoms improve but then return with fever and worse cough .",
"• Fever with a rash, especially one that does not blanch .",
"In adults, the following symptoms deserve an ER trip as well: .",
"• Difficulty breathing or shortness of breath .",
"• Pain or pressure in the chest .",
"• Abdominal pain .",
"• Sudden dizziness .",
"• Confusion . • Severe or persistent vomiting .",
"How to talk to your kids about It . As always, you'll want to explain to kids that germs can make us sick, and that's why it's important to wash your hands.",
"You can say, \"Soap and water rinse away the little buggers so they can't make us feel bad.\"",
"If they've caught wind of swine flu in particular, it's important to project an image of calm (even if you're internally flipping out) and make them feel safe.",
"Small kids should be soothed with a simple explanation that there are different kinds of flu, and we should just keep up with washing up.",
"Older kids, who may be scared but hide it, can be given a few more details but should still be reassured that their parents and our health officials are on top of it.",
"Easing symptoms and treatment .",
"If you come down with the flu, swine or otherwise, there are a few things you can do to keep yourself comfortable.",
"• If you or your child feel at all flu-ish, skip work and school.",
"Stay home until you feel completely well.",
"• Try to stay in a separate area of the house to limit the risk of passing the virus.",
"• Rest up -- consider it your free pass to catch up on your DVR list.",
"• Push clear fluids, such as water and soup.",
"• Ease body aches with acetaminophen, ibuprofen, or naproxen.",
"If your child is under 2, check with your doctor before giving them medication.",
"• Using a humidifier can ease a stuffy nose.",
"Saline drops followed by suctioning with a nasal syringe can bring additional relief to small children.",
"• There is treatment for swine flu.",
"Antiviral medications like Tamiflu and Relenza can lessen your symptoms make you feel better faster and prevent swine flu-related complications if taken early on.",
"Consult your doctor about a prescription.",
"Is there a cure? There's not a cure, but a vaccine is being developed, according to the FDA.",
"If you already got a flu shot, it probably won't protect you from this strain, but it's a good idea to still get one annually.",
"Prevention 101 .",
"You probably already know all about how to prevent the spread of germs, but in an outbreak like this, it can't hurt to be a little more vigilant.",
"Here's a rundown of easy things you can do, starting today.",
"Parenting.com: Ask Dr. Sears: Immune system boosters .",
"At home: . • This one's a no-brainer but bears repeating: wash your hands frequently, and make sure your kids do the same.",
"It's a good idea to get into the habit of doing it as soon as you walk in the door, before meals and food prep, post-potty and after touching pets.",
"• Take a moment to clean germ hot spots, like tables, doorknobs, desks and kitchen counters, with a disinfectant.",
"Look for products that contain bleach or alcohol.",
"• Keep your family's immune system strong with regular sleep, and lots of fruits and veggies.",
"If you know anyone who's been sick, stay away for now.",
"Out and about: . • Try to keep up the frequent hand-washing, especially after trips to the playground.",
"• If you don't have a sink handy, use an alcohol-based sanitizer gel or wipe.",
"Look for ones that contain at least 60% alcohol.",
"• Try to avoid crowded areas.",
"• Wash your hands or use sanitizer after handling money.",
"• Use your own pen when signing credit card slips.",
"Everywhere: . • Cover your mouth with your elbow when you cough or sneeze, and remind your kiddos to do the same.",
"• Throw your used tissue in the trash instead of stuffing it in your pocket.",
"• Try to avoid touching your eyes, nose and mouth, which give germs a fast track to infection.",
"• Remind kids not to share cups, utensils and plates with friends.",
"Getting kids to wash their hands .",
"Yes, you know they should wash those dirty mitts often, but what you really need to know is how to get them to do it sans whining.",
"We've got some tips and tricks for making washing up fun: .",
"• To get them to soap up for the required 20 seconds (or more), belt out \"Happy Birthday\" twice.",
"Everyone sounds better in the bathroom anyway, right?",
"• Fill the sink with water, and let them go to town with foam soaps and bath toys.",
"(Ignore the water on the floor.)",
"Parenting.com: Germ-fighting tips for parents .",
"• Lather up, Mom!",
"Be a good example for your kids, and encourage them to \"teach\" their dolls to wash up, too.",
"• Make sure they can reach the sink easily.",
"If you don't have one already, get a colorful stool to give them a boost.",
"• Keep their fingernails clipped -- less real estate for germs!",
"Try a FREE TRIAL issue of Parenting Magazine - CLICK HERE!",
"Copyright 2009 The Parenting Group.",
"All rights reserved.",
"Reproduction in whole or in part without permission is prohibited."
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"Explain to kids that germs can make us sick, so it's important to wash hands .",
"Project an image of calm to make them feel safe.",
"Tailor explanation to age .",
"Take common flu-season precautions ."
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"(CNN) -- For Anthony Williams, being black in America means being a suspect.",
"Anthony Williams says he feels like he's always a suspect to police.",
"The 39-year-old former Marine said he's never had any trouble with the law, other than a few traffic violations, and leads a middle-class life in the Atlanta, Georgia, area.",
"But the AT&T customer care representative said he still gets nervous when he hears that police are looking for a 6-foot-tall black man, \"because I know I fit that description.\"",
"\"I worry I will get pulled over and some police officer decides to shoot first and ask questions later,\" Williams wrote.",
"Police recently questioned him in his own driveway after getting complaints that a man was walking in neighbors' yards, Williams said.",
"iReport.com: Tell us what you thought of \"Black in America.\"",
"\"You never know what to expect when you get pulled over by police, and that's how it is when you're black,\" he said.",
"Vince Priester of Lithonia, Georgia, said the documentary was \"intriguing and moving\" and showed that \"with all the change we've made as a society, things really haven't changed\" for black people.",
"\"You have to tone yourself down when you're around white people,\" he said.",
"\"There's nervousness from white women when I share an elevator with them; they put their hand on their pocketbook.\"",
"\"You have to almost change yourself, dilute yourself, to live in a white society,\" he said.",
"iReport.com: Vince Priester describes being black in America .",
"We asked iReport.com writers and readers to share their reaction to part one of the four-hour documentary \"Black in America.\"",
"Dozens of people have responded in the hours since the show ended.",
"Ayana Gooden, a 34-year-old artist, musician and Web designer in New York, said that she enjoyed the show but that it missed one question: Why?",
"\"To look at how things are in the present, you really have to look at the past,\" she said.",
"Slavery and segregation have left deep scars that take generations to heal.",
"She said her own parents couldn't vote without harassment for a third of their lives.",
"Sonya Freeman of Brooklyn, New York, said the black community is still struggling under white oppression.",
"\"The whole single mom thing and people not being married ... back in the day, especially during slavery time, black people weren't allowed to be married,\" she said.",
"She said her grandfather wasn't allowed to go to school past the sixth grade.",
"\"It's not just bad decision-making.",
"It was a whole set of values that were not learned, so they can't be passed down,\" she said.",
"Nicole Adams of the Bronx, New York, said that she enjoyed the show but that there were too many issues to cover in just four hours.",
"\"How do you speak about black women and not talk about depression, which is a battle that many women, including myself, face every day?\"",
"she asked. Adams also questioned the emphasis on two-parent families, saying that \"the character of the people in the household and not the number was the real determining factor.\"",
"The 37-year-old grew up with a mom and a dad but said their relationship was dysfunctional.",
"\"I didn't have a model of a healthy relationship, so I didn't know how to participate productively in a relationship,\" she said.",
"\"I fought so hard not to be like my mom .. that I sabotaged my own relationship.\""
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"Share your thoughts on Part 2 on iReport.com ."
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"(CNN) -- Dan Godshall and 21 other students at Slippery Rock University will not be allowed to graduate at their school's main ceremony because they recently visited Mexico.",
"Dan Godshall was worried at first about telling his mother he wasn't able to be at the main graduation.",
"The students, who returned this week after student teaching in Mexico, came back to the United States early because they were worried the border would be closed and they'd miss out on walking at their graduation.",
"But now, they'll be walking in their own graduation, without any of their classmates, because the college feared they made have been exposed to the H1N1 flu outbreak in Mexico.",
"\"At first I was like, no way, no way,\" Godshall told CNN.",
"\"I had the irrational, 15-minute oh my God, oh my God, I can't go to my graduation.\"",
"The students got the news from the school and received an e-mail from the university's vice president explaining the change.",
"\"The university has received hundreds of calls from students and parents who were worried about being exposed at the commencement ceremonies,\" the e-mail said.",
"\"We have an obligation to protect others from what they perceive is possible exposure to this virus.\"",
"When he heard the news, Godshall was worried about how he would tell his mother that she wouldn't get to see him walk across the stage with the pomp and circumstance that everyone else will have.",
"\"I thought my mom was going to freak,\" he said.",
"iReport.com: How should we handle swine flu .",
"Senior Ryan Brisini said at first when he found out that he couldn't walk, he was \"a little irked.\"",
"\"But we are a liability, and if you are going to try and do the best thing for the school and the entire graduation ceremony, we probably shouldn't be there,\" he said.",
"So Brisini and Godshall took the news in stride.",
"The 22 students will get a ceremony unlike anyone else in the school -- and the main graduation will see a video of their ceremony.",
"\"It makes us a little distinguished from the group,\" Godshall said.",
"\"We were already the Mexican group, the swine flu zombies, now it gives us something positive and everyone has to watch our ceremony.\"",
"And with a small ceremony, only attended by the 22 students, their family and friends and university officials, senior Ryan Brisini thinks it will be more memorable.",
"He won't have to sit next to a bunch of people he won't know, and he won't have to endure the lingering theatrics of a regular ceremony.",
"\"I think its kind of cool because when you are with people for an entire month you bond with them, and I can say I'm genuinely excited for everyone graduating, whereas at the main graduation I'd be with a bunch of kids I don't know,\" he said.",
"\"With this I can clap and cheer for everyone and genuinely be happy for them.\"",
"Still, some students are upset they will miss out on the grandiose day.",
"John Powell, who also went on the trip, told CNN affiliate WTAE-TV that the whole reason the group left early was so they could attend.",
"\"It hits me a little bit.",
"It's a necessary evil, separating us.",
"I don't agree with it totally, but I'm not in too big of a position to overturn it,\" Powell said.",
"Watch Slippery Rock students tell their story » .",
"WTAE reported the university, in Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, says it has received hundreds of calls from concerned people.",
"\"There are concerns from the public perspective that they will be exposed,\" university spokeswoman Rita Abent told WTAE.",
"\"They may boo them. They may get up and walk out.",
"And graduation should be a very respectful and a very celebratory time.\"",
"Slippery Rock University isn't the only school making changes to graduation ceremonies because of swine flu fears.",
"Cisco Junior College in West Central Texas is canceling Friday graduation ceremonies.",
"Students will get their diplomas by mail, the college said.",
"\"We understand that many will be disappointed by our decision,\" college President Colleen Smith said in a statement.",
"\"However, we believe that it is more important to protect our students, employees and families than to proceed with graduation ceremonies at this time.\"",
"Graduates at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, will get diplomas at commencement ceremonies Saturday but will have to live without part of the day's tradition.",
"\"Since direct contact is one of the ways flu viruses spread, we have decided to forgo the traditional congratulatory handshake as you come forward to receive your diploma and have your photo taken with your dean,\" the school told students in a letter posted on its Web site.",
"Across the country thousands of elementary, middle and high school students are feeling the impact too.",
"At least four high schools have canceled their proms this weekend, including Park City High School in Park City, Utah, according to CNN affiliate KSL-TV.",
"Senior Kelly McGuire, who was getting ready for the prom on Saturday, is making last-minute changes because of the rescheduling.",
"\"That's a bummer, because it means we have to try to cancel our limo,\" McGuire told KSL-TV.",
"\"All cancellations have to be a week in advance.",
"I have to cancel my tux, my corsage.",
"It's going to be hectic.\"",
"The Department of Education said that as of noon on Friday 433 schools, with a total of 245,449 students, in 17 states have been closed.",
"Fort Worth schools will be closed at least until May 12, authorities said, announcing that one student was confirmed to have swine flu.",
"The closure affects about 80,000 students.",
"Texas school officials have postponed all interscholastic sports until at least May 11.",
"Alabama has taken a similar step, stopping competitions until at least Tuesday.",
"In Montgomery County, Maryland, 1,250-student Rockville High School joined the closed list Friday when state health authorities closed it until further notice because of a suspected swine flu case.",
"There, too, athletics were taking a big hit, Assistant Principal Dyan Gomez said.",
"Rockville's teams were even banned from traveling to other schools to compete this weekend, she said.",
"CNN's Brad Lendon contributed to this report."
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"Student: \"We are a liability ... we probably shouldn't be there\"\nSome students thrilled to get unique ceremony where they will know all graduates .",
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"(CNN) -- Saudi Arabia's crown prince was convalescing Saturday in Morocco where he arrived this week after surgery for an undisclosed illness in New York City, the state-run Saudi Press Agency said.",
"Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, right, seen in a 2007 file photo .",
"Crown Prince Sultan, who is also the nation's deputy prime minister, completed \"all medical tests and treatments in the aftermath of the medical surgery he has previously undergone,\" the news agency said, quoting a statement from the Royal Court.",
"Sultan arrived in the Moroccan city of Agadir on Wednesday, the press agency said.",
"Speculation about his health has been mounting since he arrived in New York in February.",
"While Saudi officials maintain publicly that Sultan's health has improved, the appointment in late March of a second deputy prime minister has raised more questions about the extent of his illness.",
"Last month, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah issued a royal decree naming the interior minister, Prince Nayef -- the powerful brother of the crown prince and half-brother to the king -- to the post of second deputy prime minster.",
"The appointment appears to mean Nayef is now the country's crown prince in waiting and second in line to be king.",
"In recent weeks, local media have quoted Nayef as downplaying rumors that the crown prince may be seriously ill. \"I would like to assure you that the crown prince's health is very good,\" he told reporters in March, according to the English-language daily newspaper Arab News.",
"\"God willing, after the medical vacation he will return to the kingdom in full health.\""
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"Illness of Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was not revealed .",
"Appointment of second deputy prime minister raises questions about illness ."
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"(CNN) -- The wedding of a Boston, Massachusetts, medical student accused of killing a woman he met through Craigslist has been called off, his fiancee's lawyer said.",
"The wedding of accused \"Craigslist killer\" Phillip Markoff and his fiancee, Megan McAllister, has been called off.",
"Megan McAllister, who was accompanied by her mother, met Phillip Markoff for about 25 minutes in a Boston jail earlier this week, her lawyer Robert Honecker told CNN affiliate WCVB.",
"\"It was an emotional conversation on both sides,\" Honecker said, adding that McAllister is planning to move back to her home state of New Jersey.",
"\"There is still a love and commitment to that person, and I think that obviously realizing what has now happened, that she has to take steps to do what she has to do on her life,\" Honecker told WCVB.",
"She plans to move on, he said.",
"\"There are things that she has to do, and I think the process begins today,\" Honecker told WCVB.",
"Honecker told ABC on Thursday that the wedding \"will not occur.\"",
"Watch lawyer tell reporters that Megan McAllister is ready to move on » .",
"McAllister maintained her fiance's innocence in an e-mail sent to ABC News in early April.",
"In the e-mail, McAllister said police have the wrong man and Markoff \"was set up.\"",
"McAllister's visit was her first since Markoff was arraigned last week on murder charges in the killing of a woman whom authorities say he met through Craigslist, a popular online classifieds service.",
"Markoff, 23, a second-year student at Boston University's School of Medicine, is charged with killing Julissa Brisman on April 14 at a Boston hotel.",
"Police said Brisman, a model from New York, advertised as a masseuse on Craigslist.",
"Prosecutors say Brisman was shot three times at close range and suffered blunt head trauma.",
"Markoff is also charged in connection with an April 10 robbery of Trisha Leffler, 29, at another hotel in Boston.",
"Leffler also met Brisman on Craigslist.",
"Leffler was robbed of $800 in cash and $250 in American Express gift cards, according to police reports.",
"Markoff has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail."
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"Lawyer: Fiancee Megan McAllister planning to move to New Jersey .",
"Markoff accused of killing Julissa Brisman after police say she met her on Craigslist .",
"Markoff also charged in connection with an April 10 robbery ."
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"MEXICO CITY, Mexico (CNN) -- A killer bug is spreading like wildfire.",
"Armed guards stand outside the Mexico City Respiratory Hospital to control the flow of people.",
"Streets of one of the world's biggest cities are eerily empty.",
"Bars and restaurants have been shuttered for days.",
"The president goes on TV to tell workers to stay at home for their own safety.",
"Those who venture outside are clad in surgical masks.",
"Once healthy people are suddenly falling sick and dying from a new disease, H1N1 swine flu.",
"The government swears the situation is under control.",
"But down at the hospital, medics scurry around behind the glass door of an isolation ward.",
"They're clad from head to toe in biohazard suits, goggles and two pairs of gloves.",
"At the airport, officials set up a barrage of thermal imaging machines.",
"If the picture flashes up red or orange, would-be passengers are whisked off to medical facilities.",
"See where the virus has been confirmed » .",
"It may sound like a sci-fi movie.",
"It's not. Welcome to Mexico City.",
"It's a nightmare scenario and despite twice-a-day news conferences featuring Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova, people on the streets fear the virus may be out of control and that the real death toll may be greater than anyone is letting on.",
"Watch how the city has been shut down » .",
"\"The measures we're taking are working and are helping us to slow the spread of the virus.",
"But the situation continues to be serious,\" Cordova said at a news conference this week.",
"Government orders to its citizens are clear: wash frequently, don't shake hands or kiss, and stay away from crowded places.",
"That's easier said than done.",
"The doors on the subway car snap open at Hidalgo station.",
"Dozens more passengers clad in surgical masks stream on.",
"It's rush hour deep below the streets of downtown Mexico City.",
"The subway system is the veins of the capital, ferrying millions of people from all social classes to and from work.",
"It's hot and humid down there and there's little fresh air.",
"It's just the kind of crowded place that Mexican authorities say could be a prime breeding ground for swine flu.",
"\"I'm pretty nervous of this whole virus thing,\" welder Frontino Valdez mumbled through one of the masks.",
"Watch passengers packed onto trains trying to protect themselves » .",
"Sitting one carriage down, Berta Hernandez, a product demonstrator, tries not to show her panic and applies eyeliner like any other morning.",
"But today she has a problem, she has no intention of lifting her mask to paint on lip gloss.",
"\"I'm nervous of those people who aren't wearing masks.",
"Maybe they will suddenly sneeze or cough,\" she said.",
"In these days of swine flu paranoia, just coughing, or worse sneezing, in the subway, or \"metro\" as they call it here, brings black looks from fellow passengers.",
"This has been a strange epidemic since the outset.",
"So far, the Mexican government has been unable to pinpoint where or when this outbreak started.",
"Authorities admit there was an outbreak of influenza in a village in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz in early April.",
"But only one patient -- 5-year-old Edgar Hernandez -- was diagnosed as having swine flu.",
"Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta ask the boy about his symptoms » .",
"The international media have taken to calling him \"Patient Zero.\"",
"He made a full recovery.",
"So far there's no evidence a pig farm near his home reported any problems with its livestock.",
"The family hasn't explained how little Edgar could have infected a capital city let alone the world.",
"The authorities haven't drawn up a genetic map of Edgar's illness nor compared it to the lethal strain that swept through Mexico City and other parts of the country.",
"Lethal it is. But getting to the truth of who has really died from the virus is tough.",
"Since midweek, the government abandoned its initial reporting and began to speak only of confirmed swine flu cases and confirmed deaths due to the H1N1 virus.",
"Previously it had also tallied suspected cases and others under observation.",
"In practice, it is taking days for the government to get test results from autopsies and tests.",
"By the time a case is confirmed the patient may be long buried.",
"One afternoon this week, at a cinder block home perched on a hillside in a poor northern neighborhood of Mexico City, a coffin was mounted on the living room table.",
"A steady stream of neighbors filed in to pay their final tribute to a dead 24-year-old.",
"Biting back tears, a young man said his brother had died of \"respiratory problems.\"",
"When asked what kind of a person his brother was, he said simply: \"He was an honest man.",
"He never got in any trouble.\"",
"The man seemed to be feeling an underlying sense of shame.",
"Suddenly there was a huge stigma attached to swine flu -- like in the early days of AIDS-related deaths -- and Mexican families were keen to dispel notions their loved ones had died of the mutant virus.",
"They didn't want the prying eyes of the media near their home.",
"We wanted to tell their story, observe the wake and follow the funeral.",
"But death is a rite of passage.",
"They had a right to mourn in private.",
"The following day came a tip-off that a 5-year-old girl, Maria Fernanda Garcia, had died.",
"The modest side street outside her home in eastern Mexico City was swarming with police, health workers and civil protection officials.",
"Watch how armed guards were part of Maria Fernanda's funeral » .",
"Little Maria Fernanda's father appeared briefly and told us we weren't welcome.",
"He was curt when he told us his daughter had died from pneumonia.",
"A medic confirmed the specific cause of death was indeed pneumonia.",
"But he added the hospital was still waiting for test results to confirm whether the underlying cause was swine flu.",
"He conceded that process could take days.",
"But judging by the heavy security, local authorities certainly feared this was another case of the virus.",
"\"These are the prevention measures we must take.",
"This case is still not confirmed but we must take these steps to protect citizens,\" said Victor Luna, a member of the public security detail for this district of Mexico City.",
"A few minutes later, the hearse with Maria Fernanda's body pulled out of the housing complex where she lived.",
"Her dad was clutching a Winnie Pooh cuddly toy as he rode up front.",
"Police and health officials shadowed the funeral cortege to the graveyard.",
"Police guards only permitted immediate family and close friends through the iron gates.",
"Through the bars silent, tearful mourners could be seen weaving through a labyrinth of headstones.",
"Later that afternoon, the family had left Maria Fernanda's grave -- a tiny patch of newly dug dry earth, not much more than 3 feet long.",
"It was covered with sweet-scented white flowers.",
"The plaque on the grave was a simple hand-painted affair: .",
"\"Maria Fernanda.",
"2004 to 2009. We love you.\""
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"(CNN) -- The number of confirmed cases of the H1N1 virus has jumped nearly 30 percent with 331 people being infected so far, the World Health Organization said Friday.",
"A young couple in Mexico City wear surgical masks in an attempt to avoid contamination from the virus.",
"The WHO added that the virus had spread to 11 countries, but the hardest hit areas were in the western hemisphere.",
"\"We have not seen sustained human to human transmission anywhere outside the Americas region,\" said WHO spokesman Thomas Abraham.",
"Two more countries, Denmark and China, reported cases of the 2009 H1N1 \"swine flu\" virus on Friday, but they were still to be confirmed by the WHO.",
"The largest outbreak was in Mexico which had 156 confirmed cases, while there were 141 cases confirmed and one death in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).",
"The WHO said Mexico had 9 deaths attributed to the virus.",
"But Mexican officials said the death toll had risen to 12.",
"However, more than 150 deaths in Mexico are suspected to have been caused by the virus and are being investigated, officials there said.",
"The higher totals do not necessarily mean that incidence of the disease is increasing, but rather that health investigators are going through their backlog of specimens, said Dr. Keiji Fukuda, assistant director-general of WHO.",
"In addition to Mexico and the United States, the following countries have so far confirmed non-lethal cases: .",
"Austria: 1 Canada: 34 China: 1 Denmark: 1 Germany: 3 Israel: 2 Netherlands: 1 New Zealand: 3 Spain: 13 Switzerland: 1 United Kingdom: 9 .",
"An additional 642 cases are being investigated in the United Kingdom, and Spain has 84 suspected cases.",
"Australia, which has had no confirmed cases, was investigating 114."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- Sportsmen and women being caught taking drugs is not a new phenomenon -- but it's still a shock when the news breaks.",
"Romania's Adrian Mutu was sacked by Chelsea and banned from the game for testing positive for cocaine.",
"Only recently Michael Phelps, who shattered Olympic records by claiming eight golds in the pool in Beijing last year, was caught on camera with a marijuana pipe to his mouth.",
"The American is far from alone.",
"The history of sport is peppered with drug use, usually of the performance-enhancing kind: athletics has been blighted by it, cycling has lost much of its credibility because of it and baseball has proven to be far from immune.",
"But football, the world's most popular game in terms of fan following and participation, does not seem to have had its share of drugs scandals, not least in the world's most high profile division, the English Premier League.",
"No top-flight player in English football has ever tested positive for using performance-enhancing drugs in a league match.",
"The closest anyone has come is Middlesbrough FC defender Abel Xavier, who was banned from football by UEFA for 18 months in 2005 when he tested positive for the steroid dianabol after a UEFA Cup match.",
"The English Football Association (FA) takes its lead on doping from UK Sport, the body which regulates drug testing in the UK based on the code set out by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).",
"Let us know your views of drugs and drug testing in football.",
"UK Sport's Russell Langley does not believe more tests would necessarily return more positive results.",
"\"It's a difficult question to answer,\" he said.",
"\"The stats show what they show.",
"But it's fair to say if doping was going on at that level we would have unearthed it.",
"\"Our focus at UK Sport is not on more and more testing -- we don't think that's going to answer the question about whether there's more doping out there.",
"\"What we want to do is make every test we do as effective as possible.",
"If there are people out there doping we've got to have the right level of intelligence and information to target them.",
"\"Testing at no notice and out of competition is where we think we've got the best chance of being able to catch any sportsmen taking drugs,\" he added.",
"English footballers can be tested after matches (in competition) and at training sessions (out of competition).",
"Until a few years ago, a tester was forbidden from turning up at a footballer's house unannounced (no notice).",
"But the FA has altered its stance as part of its claim that it \"maintains the largest and most comprehensive out-of-competition testing program in international football.\"",
"They conduct 1,600 random, no-notice drug tests per season, which the World Anti-Doping Code and the UNESCO International Convention Against Doping on Sport state is the most effective method of combating the use of drugs in sport.",
"But those 1,600 tests are conducted on professional players, non-league football, women's football and youth team football.",
"It means the chances are small of catching any Premier League star who may be using drugs.",
"Down the years, Italy's Serie A has seen the most cases of players getting caught with either performance-enhancing or recreational drugs in their system.",
"One reason for this is the Italian authorities' no-nonsense stance: two players from each squad are drawn at random to be tested after every match.",
"And it has worked. Household names such as Jaap Stam, Edgar Davids, Pep Guardiola, Fernando Couto, Francesco Flachi, Mohamed Kallon and Diego Maradona have all been caught in the last two decades.",
"By way of comparison, Billy Turley, a goalkeeper in one of England's lower leagues, was let off with warning after being found to have taken the steroid nandrolone in the 2002-03 season.",
"It took a further positive test for cocaine for him to get a six-month ban.",
"But on the issue of combating social drugs -- something not demanded by WADA's code -- Langley believes the FA's stance is to be applauded.",
"He said: \"They invest heavily in their testing program.",
"They recognize that a particular problem for their sport is social drugs so this separate testing goes on.",
"They don't have to do it. \"This carries a different set of sanctions which are controlled by the FA and the aim of that program is about rehabilitation rather than punishment.\"",
"Langley said the sanctions send out a strong message that the FA is prepared to do something about it.",
"\"They recognize their responsibility -- football is a huge role model for youngsters,\" he added.",
"Chris Armstrong, then of Crystal Palace, became the first Premier League player to fail a drug test when he tested positive for cannabis in 1995.",
"He was back playing within a month following a brief spell in rehab.",
"Chelsea's Mark Bosnich and Adrian Mutu have both been caught with cocaine in their systems and both were banned and sacked by the club in the 2000s.",
"The FA also wants to make sure that players understand that not taking a test is not an option either, making an example of Manchester United's Rio Ferdinand.",
"The center-back missed a scheduled drugs test in 2003 and was belatedly suspended for eight months and fined £50,000.",
"Ferdinand could have got a bigger punishment.",
"The FA's guidelines state that for a first offence a minimum suspension of three months up to a maximum of two years will apply, but a lack of consistency has always dogged punishments for drug offences.",
"No other footballer has been reported as missing a test since.",
"The FA is far from blind to the issue of drugs in English football and since the Ferdinand incident their policies and punishments have been tightened.",
"But as long as a player's chances of getting caught remain comparatively small, drugs in football appears to be an issue the FA is keeping a lid on rather than eradicating."
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"NEW DELHI, India (CNN) -- A Pakistani man using \"colonel\" as a title is one of about three dozen people wanted over November's terrorist attacks in Mumbai, but his connections with the Pakistani army have not been established, Indian prosecutors say.",
"Police patrol in New Delhi last year following warnings of possible attacks using hijacked aircraft, officials said.",
"\"This is all a matter of investigation,\" special public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told CNN Thursday when asked if India thought he had links to the Pakistani army.",
"Neither is it clear whether the \"colonel\" belonged to the Pakistan-based militant outfit Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, which is blamed for the Mumbai siege, Nikam said.",
"But India, the public prosecutor added, had \"ample evidence\" of his involvement in the November attacks.",
"Authorities say Mohammed Ajmal Kasab, the only surviving suspect accused of taking part in the Mumbai siege, faces a multitude of charges, including murder and attempted murder.",
"Speaking outside Qila Court in Mumbai, Nikam said Kasab didn't attend the hearing for security reasons.",
"The next hearing is set for March 9.",
"A 21-year-old Pakistani, Kasab was one of 10 men accused of participating in the coordinated sieges on buildings such as the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower and Oberoi-Trident hotels, Mumbai's historic Victoria Terminus train station and the Jewish cultural center, Chabad House.",
"Indian forces killed nine suspects.",
"More than 160 people, including many foreigners, died during the three days of attacks that began November 26.",
"Authorities said Kasab was trained by Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, which was banned in Pakistan in 2002 after a terrorist attack on India's parliament.",
"The group denied responsibility.",
"Nikam said on Wednesday that the 50-page document describing the charges against Kasab also contains the names of 35 other suspects being sought in the crimes, many of whom are thought to be members of Lashkar-e-Tayyiba.",
"The prosecutor said his office hopes to finish the trial for Kasab in three to six months.",
"He has been in police custody since November 28.",
"Also charged Wednesday were two men accused of helping to plan the violence, Fahim Ansari and Sabahuddin Ahmed, according to the prosecutor."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Terror attacks have spiked dramatically in Afghanistan and Pakistan as extremists in both countries strengthen their power and expand operations, according to a State Department report released Thursday.",
"The number of terrorist attacks in Pakistan, like this bombing in April, has more than quadrupled from 2006 to 2008.",
"But the State Department annual terrorism report notes an overall decline in attacks worldwide and fewer attacks in Iraq.",
"The attacks worldwide have decreased by 20 percent, with 30 percent fewer fatalities, said Russell Travers of the National Counterterrorism Center.",
"The report says al Qaeda and its extremist supporters have moved across the Afghan border \"to the remote areas of the Pakistani frontier, where they have used this terrain as a safe haven to hide, train terrorists, communicate with the followers, plot attacks and send fighters to support the insurgency in Afghanistan.\"",
"In Pakistan alone, the report says, attacks more than quadrupled between 2006 and 2008, with a sharp increase in their \"coordination, sophistication and frequency.\"",
"Last year there were 1,839 terrorist \"incidents,\" compared with 890 in 2007, Travers said.",
"The rise in violence has complicated the Obama administration's effort to implement its strategy of boosting military and civilian programs in both countries.",
"The report says the largest number of attacks occurred in Pakistani provinces near the Afghan border, including Balochistan, the North West Frontier and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, where extremists have sought to challenge the government and extend Islamic law.",
"It also notes the government's inability to get a handle on the extremists.",
"Despite having 80,000 to 100,000 troops in those provinces, it says, \"the government of Pakistan's authority in the area continued to be challenged.\"",
"Ronald Schlicher, the State Department's acting coordinator of counterterrorism, told reporters the Obama administration has \"real concerns\" that al Qaeda's senior leadership may be operating from those areas and could be plotting attacks against the United States.",
"\"We have a real sense that it's happening, but we have imperfect knowledge of what they're doing,\" he said.",
"Pakistan's military in the past week launched an assault on militants in Taliban-held areas after they seized territory in violation of an agreement signed this year by Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari.",
"The deal, criticized by the United States, allowed the Taliban to implement Islamic law, or sharia, in the region in exchange for an end to fighting.",
"The recent operations are part of the Pakistani army's intensified drive against the Taliban in its restive tribal regions.",
"The Pakistani government has been criticized for not cracking down on militants along its border with Afghanistan.",
"As a result, the U.S. military has carried out airstrikes against militant targets in Pakistan.",
"The strikes have rankled relations between the two countries.",
"Pakistan has asked the United States to supply its forces with helicopters, communication equipment and night-vision technology as part of a U.S. plan to beef up the country's counterterrorism efforts.",
"President Obama told reporters Wednesday night that he is \"gravely concerned about the situation in Pakistan.\"",
"Speaking at a news conference capping his 100th day in office, Obama said the United States has \"huge national security interests in making sure that Pakistan is stable\" and doesn't end up a \"nuclear-armed militant state.\"",
"After making two visits to Pakistan in less than three weeks, Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, is \"very alarmed by the growing extremist threat in Pakistan and remains frustrated particularly by the political leaderships' inability to confront that threat,\" according to his chief spokesman.",
"Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Defense Secretary Robert Gates have called Taliban gains in Pakistan an \"existential threat\" to the country.",
"The State Department report notes the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, in November, attributing them to the Pakistan-based Kashmir terrorist group Laskhar-e-Tayyiba and to its fundraising subsidiary, amaat ud-Dawa.",
"Although Pakistan has cracked down on some of the groups' camps and made several arrests, the report warned of continuing tension between India and Pakistan.",
"The report says Afghanistan is plagued by \"an insurgency that more and more relied on vicious and increasingly sophisticated terrorist attacks,\" despite the efforts of NATO forces and the Afghan government.",
"\"The anti-government insurgency remained a capable, determined and resilient threat to stability and to the expansion of government authority,\" the report warns.",
"Although the Taliban continued to suffer heavy combat loses, the report says its ability to leverage support from al Qaeda and recruit soldiers \"remained undiminished.\"",
"\"Taliban information operations were increasingly aggressive and sophisticated,\" it says.",
"\"Streams of Taliban financing from across the border in Pakistan, along with funds gained from narcotics trafficking, have allowed the insurgency to strengthen its military and technical capabilities.\"",
"Iran is also a source of training to the Taliban \"on small-unit tactics, small arms, explosives and indirect-fire weapons,\" the report says.",
"\"Since at least 2006, Iran has arranged arms shipments including small arms and associated ammunition, rocket-propelled grenades, mortar rounds, 107 mm rockets and plastic explosives to select Taliban members,\" it says.",
"While terrorists in Iraq still launched attacks last year, \"there was a notable reduction in the number of security incidents throughout much of the country, including a decrease in civilian casualties, enemy attacks, and improvised explosive device attacks in the last quarter of the year,\" the report says.",
"There were 3,258 terrorist incidents in 2008, down almost half from the 6,210 attacks in 2007, Travers said.",
"He added there was a decrease during the first quarter of 2009, although there has a been a spike in terrorist attacks in April.",
"Although the threat from al Qaeda in Iraq \"continued to diminish\" due to significant defections and a loss of both territory and funding, al Qaeda continued to benefit from safe haven in Somalia and has strengthened its North African operations, the report says.",
"It notes a sharp increase in attacks by al Qaeda affiliates in North Africa.",
"In Algeria, many of the attacks were blamed on al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, whose tactics \"appeared to be influenced by [al Qaeda's] experience in Iraq.\"",
"The report also warns \"the security situation in Yemen continued to deteriorate during 2008 and was marked by a series of attacks against both Western and Yemeni interests,\" culminating in the September 17 suicide bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa that killed 18.",
"\"Recruitment for al Qaeda in Yemen (AQY) remained strong, and the use of vehicle borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs) and suicide vests indicated a high level of training, coordination, and sophistication by Yemen's terrorist leadership,\" the report says.",
"The report calls the government's response to the terrorist threat \"intermittent and its ability to pursue and prosecute suspected terrorists remained weak due to a number of shortcomings, including stalled draft counterterrorism legislation.\"",
"Although a raid in August on an al Qaeda in Yemen cell in the country uncovered large number of weapons, the report warns the action \"did little to deter or disrupt other AQY cells.\"",
"It was a month later that at least seven assailants dressed in Yemeni security-service uniforms attacked the U.S. Embassy with explosives and suicide vests, launching what the report calls a \"sophisticated and well-coordinated\" attack.",
"The report says Iran \"remained the most active state sponsor of terrorism,\" including supporting terrorist groups such as Hamas, Hezbollah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, all of which opposed the Middle East peace process, as well as Iraq-based militants and the Taliban fighters in Afghanistan.",
"It cites the Qods Force, an elite branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as the regime's \"primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad.\"",
"\"Iran's involvement in the planning and financial support of terrorist attacks throughout the Middle East, Europe and Central Asia had a direct impact on international efforts to promote peace, threatened economic stability in the Gulf, and undermined the growth of democracy,\" the report says.",
"Schlicher also said that the United States is \"troubled by indications that the Iranians may be seeking to extend their influence into other parts of the world and expand its military ties into Latin America.\"",
"The Obama administration has adopted a policy of engagement with Iran in an effort to curb its nuclear ambitions."
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"ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- In a bustling room full of computers, giant wall-mounted monitors and constantly ringing telephones, a newly gathered army is fighting a war.",
"The swine flu outbreak has kept workers busy at the Emergency Operations Center at the CDC..",
"The control room is staffed 24/7, and the leader recently had to tell his fighters to make sure to take a day off per week.",
"This is the Emergency Operations Center at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which has ramped up its resources to tackle swine flu, a new disease that experts say may evolve into a global pandemic.",
"\"The last time when we were really at this level was Hurricane Katrina,\" said Toby Crafton, operations manager.",
"The CDC has 400 people tasked to work on the virus, also called the 2009 H1N1 flu, Crafton said.",
"The agency had deployed 50 people to various U.S. states and Mexico by Friday.",
"The Mexican government asked the CDC to help facilitate laboratory testing of the virus during a conference call with Canada and the United States, he said.",
"Watch as Dr. Sanjay Gupta tours the Emergency Operations Center » .",
"\"We don't go anywhere unilaterally.",
"We don't go into any state unless asked,\" Crafton said.",
"\"So if the state health department or the state health director or the government feels like their capacity is exceeded or they need us for our scientific expertise, they will ask us to come.\"",
"Explainer: What you should know about 2009 H1N1 flu » .",
"The U.S. has also committed to giving Mexico 400,000 doses of the antiviral drug Tamiflu, a shipment believed to have arrived Friday morning, said Dr. Anne Schuchat, interim deputy director for science and public health at the CDC.",
"In front of each computer in the Emergency Operations Center is a placard: Ethics, Immunization, Mental Health, Security, and dozens more.",
"The people -- some in jeans, some in skirts, some in uniforms with military stripes -- are fielding phones calls to their respective departments.",
"Elsewhere in laboratories, samples of the virus arrive in FedEx and World Courier packages for analysis, triple packaged to avoid leaking.",
"Scientists are working on the genetic sequencing of the virus, as well as growing a strain that functions as a vaccine.",
"Although the CDC is not in the business of mass-producing vaccines, researchers there are working on developing one.",
"A vaccine strain is being grown and characterized, Schuchat said.",
"Once a suitable candidate virus is developed -- it takes about three weeks -- the CDC theoretically would send it to a manufacturer, which would need another eight to 10 weeks to determine production possibilities as well as the dosage, said Dr. Nancy Cox, director of the CDC's Influenza Division, at a press conference Friday.",
"But it would not interfere with the seasonal influenza vaccine.",
"\"If a vaccine for this new virus is prepared, it would be prepared either in parallel with or after the seasonal vaccine is already produced,\" Cox said.",
"Still, there has not been a recommendation to mass produce a vaccine for swine flu.",
"The U.S. part of that decision would come from the Department of Health and Human Services.",
"Map: Where the flu is » . Researchers are still struggling to understand the origin of the virus.",
"\"What isn't making sense right now is why there weren't reports of illness in pigs,\" said Michael Shaw, leader of the laboratory team force for the 2009 H1N1 virus.",
"\"Usually, if you find a human who has been infected by a swine influenza virus, you look around, you start seeing sick pigs, and we haven't seen that.\"",
"Watch Dr. Sanjay Gupta talk with Michael Shaw about what CDC is doing to combat virus » .",
"It is possible that the virus did not originate in pigs.",
"Swine viruses have been found in turkeys, for example, Shaw said.",
"The 2009 H1N1 virus has a \"level 2\" containment distinction at the CDC, although extra precautions from \"level 3\" are being applied, Shaw said.",
"That means swine flu is one containment level below avian flu, which was at 3.",
"One key handling difference is that lab workers had to shower after being exposed to the avian virus, he said.",
"Back in the Emergency Operations Center, computer screens glow with e-mails, maps, databases, slides and articles related to the new flu strain.",
"\"We're going to continue to be vigilant and continue to work as hard as we can until it's over,\" Crafton said."
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"(CNN) -- New Hampshire's Senate has approved a bill allowing same-sex couples to marry, but critics and supporters of the legislation say their work isn't over.",
"New Hampshire could become the fifth state to allow same-sex marriage if a bill becomes law.",
"\"We were obviously disappointed,\" Kevin Smith, executive director of the conservative Cornerstone Policy Research Action group, said Thursday.",
"\"We don't think the voters are going to forget about it.\"",
"On the other side, members of the New Hampshire Freedom to Marry Coalition, a group that has worked since 2001 for same-sex marriage, were \"absolutely thrilled,\" said Mo Baxley, its executive director.",
"But noting that the bill is returning to the House of Representatives for consideration of changes made by the Senate, Baxley added, \"I think the work continues.\"",
"Her organization will encourage supporters to contact their representatives ahead of the House vote, she said.",
"On Wednesday, the Senate voted 13-11 in favor of the bill, which differs from the House-approved version in that it distinguishes between civil and religious marriage.",
"It allows each religion to decide whether to acknowledge same-sex marriage but extends the option of civil marriage to any two individuals, said state Senate spokeswoman Anne Saunders.",
"The House, which passed the earlier version last month by a margin of seven votes, 186-179, must approve the changed version before it can be sent to Gov.",
"John Lynch, a Democrat who has questioned the need for the bill.",
"After the Senate vote, Lynch released a statement saying he believes that \"the fundamental issue is about providing the same rights and protections to same-sex couples as are available to heterosexual couples.",
"This was accomplished through the passage of the civil unions law two years ago.\"",
"Lynch signed the state's civil unions law in May 2007.",
"\"To achieve further real progress,\" he added, \"the federal government would need to take action to recognize New Hampshire civil unions.\"",
"Earlier this month, the governor said he believes the word \"marriage\" should be used only to describe a marriage between a man and a woman, the New Hampshire Union Leader in Manchester reported.",
"\"I think the word 'marriage' is reserved for a marriage between a man and a woman, and I think the real issues really are rights and protections for gay and lesbian couples,\" he told reporters on April 15, according to the newspaper.",
"Smith said his organization, which was established in 2000, would \"lobby hard\" to get the governor to veto the bill.",
"He said he expected it to pass the House.",
"\"Look, this is a matter of holding the governor accountable,\" he said.",
"\"He's been very public with his views on same-sex marriage in the state.",
"... We'll see if he was misleading the voters of New Hampshire or if he'll stand by his word and actually veto it.\"",
"Were the bill to become law, New Hampshire would become the fifth state allowing same-sex marriage, joining Connecticut, Vermont, Massachusetts and Iowa.",
"Only Vermont has established the practice legislatively.",
"CNN's Taylor Gandossy contributed to this report."
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"(CNN) -- Deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, the world's largest particle accelerator complex will explore the world on smaller scales than any human invention has explored before.",
"The collider's ALICE experiment will look at how the universe formed by analyzing particle collisions.",
"The Large Hadron Collider will look at how the universe formed by analyzing particle collisions.",
"Some have expressed fears that the project could lead to the Earth's demise -- something scientists say will not happen.",
"Still, skeptics have filed suit to try to stop the project.",
"It even has a rap dedicated to it on YouTube.",
"Scientists say the collider is finally ready for an attempt to circulate a beam of protons the whole way around the 17-mile tunnel.",
"The test, which takes place Wednesday, is a major step toward seeing if the the immense experiment will provide new information about the way the universe works.",
"\"It's really a generation that we've been looking forward to this moment, and the moments that will come after it in particular,\" said Bob Cousins, deputy to the scientific leader of the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment, one of six experiments inside the collider complex.",
"\"September 10 is a demarcation between finishing the construction and starting to turn it on, but the excitement will only continue to grow.\"",
"The collider consists of a particle accelerator buried more than 300 feet near Geneva, Switzerland.",
"About $10 billion have gone into the accelerator's construction, the particle detectors and the computers, said Katie Yurkewicz, spokewoman for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, which is host to the collider.",
"In the coming months, the collider is expected to begin smashing particles into each other by sending two beams of protons around the tunnel in opposite directions.",
"It will operate at higher energies and intensities in the next year, and the experiments could generate enough data to make a discovery by 2009, experts say.",
"Check out the collider complex's six detectors » .",
"Testing the unknown .",
"Experts say the collider has the potential to confirm theories about questions that physicists have been working on for decades including the possible existence of extra dimensions.",
"They also hope to find a theoretical particle called the Higgs boson, which has never been detected, but would help explain why matter has mass.",
"The collider will recreate the conditions of less than a millionth of a second after the Big Bang, when there was a hot \"soup\" of tiny particles called quarks and gluons, to look at how the universe evolved, said John Harris, U.S. coordinator for ALICE, a detector specialized to analyze that question.",
"Since this is exploratory science, the collider may uncover surprises that contradict prevailing theories, but which are just as interesting, said Joseph Lykken, theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.",
"\"When Columbus sails west, he thought he was going to find something.",
"He didn't find what he thought he was going to find, but he did find something interesting,\" said Lykken, who works on the Compact Muon Solenoid, one of six experiments inside the collider complex.",
"Why should the layperson care about this particular exploration?",
"Years ago, when electrons were first identified, no one knew what they were good for, but they have since transformed our entire economy, said Howard Gordon, deputy research program manager for the collider's ATLAS experiment.",
"\"The transformative effect of this research will be to understand the world we live in much better,\" said Gordon, at Brookhaven National Laboratory.",
"\"It's important for just who we are, what we are.\" Black hole fears are \"baloney\" Fears have emerged that the collider could produce black holes that could suck up anything around them -- including the whole Earth.",
"Such fears prompted legal actions in the U.S. and Europe to halt the operation of the Large Hadron Collider, alleging safety concerns regarding black holes and other phenomena that could theoretically emerge.",
"Although physicists acknowledge that the collider could, in theory, create small black holes, they say they do not pose any risk.",
"A study released Friday by CERN scientists explains that any black hole created would be tiny, and would not have enough energy to stick around very long before dissolving.",
"Five collider collaborators who did not pen the report independently told CNN there would be no danger from potential black holes.",
"John Huth, who works on the collider's ATLAS experiment, called such fears \"baloney\" in a recent interview, and noted that in normal physics, even if the black hole were stable, it could just pass through the Earth without being detected or without interacting at all.",
"\"The gravitational force is so weak that you'd have to wait many, many, many, many, many lifetimes of the universe before one of these things could [get] big enough to even get close to being a problem,\" said Huth, professor of physics at Harvard University.",
"At the scene . When visiting the general-purpose detectors CMS and ATLAS at the Large Hadron Collider, Lykken said he was awed that 30,000 tons of electronics would have to work without anyone fiddling with them all the time.",
"\"It just blows you away to look at these things and realize they're not only incredibly complex and huge, but they have to actually work,\" he said.",
"\"They have to work without people banging on them all day because they're sitting underground all by themselves.\"",
"With twice as much iron as the Eiffel Tower, CMS will run at full power for the first time in conjunction with the first beam test Wednesday, Lykken said.",
"The magnet serves to bend particles, whizzing by at almost the speed of light, to figure out what kind of particles they are.",
"Although the detector's parts weigh thousands of tons, in previous trials of CMS at lower power, the magnet actually yanked certain parts around because of its power, Lykken said.",
"\"You're talking about such incredible power inside both the accelerator and detectors that you never really know until you turn it all on what's going to happen,\" he said.",
"Scientists around the world are pumped for the first beam.",
"Fermilab, the high energy physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, and major collaborator on the Large Hadron Collider, will be host of a \"pajama party\" at 1:30 a.m. CT that includes a live connection to CERN to follow the action.",
"Cousins believes that because the collider pushes the frontiers of science and technology, it would be \"amazingly impressive if it works the first try,\" he said in a phone interview from CERN.",
"Any little disturbance of the magnetic field anywhere in the tunnel could stop the beam from making it all the way around.",
"Still, after a 25-year wait, he's not complaining.",
"\"I personally will be fine if there's some problem that has to be overcome in the next few days,\" he said."
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"Large Hadron Collider will have first attempt at circulating a beam September 10 .",
"It's the largest particle accelerator in the world and costs about $10 billion .",
"Lawsuits allege it could generate black holes that could eat the Earth .",
"Scientists say these allegations have no merit ."
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"(CNN) -- Hamburg have put one foot in the UEFA Cup final after a header from Germany winger Piotr Trochowski proved enough to give them a 1-0 win at Bundesliga rivals Werder Bremen in the first leg of their semifinal.",
"Piotr Trochowski celebrates the only goal as Hamburg took a major step towards the UEFA Cup final.",
"Martin Jol's side scored the only goal of a pulsating match in the 38th minute when Trochowski, the smallest player on the pitch, rose superbly at the back post to head Guy Demel's right-wing cross past goalkeeper Tim Wiese.",
"Both side had countless half-chances to score but Hamburg wasted the best of them on the hour mark when Bayern Munich-bound striker Ivica Olic broke through in acres of space, but fired his shot straight at Wiese.",
"Hamburg's victory puts them on line for their first European final since 1983, when they beat Juventus 1-0 to win the European Cup.",
"This was the second of four matches in quick succession between the north Germany neighbors -- who met each other in the German Cup last week and will play the return leg of the semifinal next Thursday before a Bundesliga clash on Sunday May 10.",
"And the result was sweet revenge for Hamburg, who saw Wiese save three penalties in last week's shoot-out as Werder knocked their rivals out of the German Cup, also at the semifinal stage.",
"The eventual winners will play either Shakhtar Donetsk or Dynamo Kiev in May's Istanbul final."
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"Hamburg in line for first European final since 1983 after defeating Werder 1-0 .",
"Winger Piotr Trochowski heads in the only goal of their UEFA Cup semifinal .",
"Eventual winners will face Shakhtar Donetsk or Dynamo Kiev in Istanbul final ."
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"SPRUCE PINE, North Carolina (CNN) -- Like most parents, Vickie and Keith Murdock worry about providing for their family.",
"With three teenage daughters, that can be a big challenge, but these days it's more difficult than ever.",
"Keith and Vickie Murdock retrained for new jobs after suffering layoffs.",
"But they remain unemployed.",
"Vickie and Keith are both out of work.",
"They live in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, a tiny mountain town about an hour's drive northeast of Asheville that has lost more than 2,000 jobs since 2003.",
"That's a devastating number, given that Mitchell County's 2000 Census population was only 15,687.",
"Keith was laid off in 2001, when a textile mill closed.",
"He had worked there for 13 years.",
"He did what all the experts say to do: He went back to school, got his GED and retrained to be an auto body mechanic.",
"After graduation, he found a job at nearby Altec Industries.",
"But again, he was laid off in January.",
"Today, he spends his time looking for work.",
"Keith said \"everybody you talk to\" tells him, \" 'well, we're not hiring.",
"We ain't got nothing open right now.'",
"\" Vickie has suffered her own layoff.",
"She lost her job in 2006 when furniture maker Ethan Allen closed its plant in the area.",
"She decided to retrain and will graduate from the local community college in May as a certified medical assistant.",
"Vickie hopes to get a job at a local clinic, but jobs are hard to come by in this area.",
"Major industries, including textile manufacturing, furniture making and mining, have downsized or left the area completely.",
"The Rev. Bill Sweetser works with Shepherd's Staff, a local food pantry.",
"He says workers there are seeing three times as many clients as they did just last year.",
"Watch how the Murdocks have struggled against the bad economy » .",
"The food bank is in an old textile mill that just a few years ago was one of the largest employers in Mitchell County.",
"Now, former workers come there for assistance.",
"\"Right now, I would say we're barely keeping up,\" Sweetser said.",
"\"Our policy is that everybody who comes in will get something.",
"Sometimes we're out of certain staples. ...",
"It may not be the food you want to give them, it may not be the food they necessarily prefer, but we give them something.\"",
"Community leaders are hoping a focus on promoting mountain crafts and tourism and a growing second home market will spur an economic revitalization.",
"Keith Holtsclaw runs Blue Ridge Regional Hospital, one of the area's largest employers, and heads the county's economic development commission.",
"\"I just don't see manufacturing coming back into the community,\" he said.",
"\"We have to work with what we've got. We have lots of artists here.",
"We are great, we're on the Blue Ridge Parkway, we're on the Appalachian Trail ... so we need to play to our strengths.\"",
"Until that economic revitalization happens, Vickie and Keith Murdock are living off unemployment benefits and hoping to find work soon.",
"Vickie tries to calm her anxiety about the everyday costs of life.",
"\"We think that when we get to worrying how we are gonna pay for this,\" she said, \"it's like the Lord makes a way.\"",
"For the Murdock family and this community, a new way to stimulate the local economy is desperately needed."
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"Spruce Pine, N.C., has lost 2,000 jobs in a county of about 15,600 residents .",
"Some laid-off workers have retrained, only to lose their jobs again .",
"Closed factory that employed thousands has become a food bank .",
"Community leaders hope to revitalize economy by attracting tourists ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- New York's iconic Plaza Hotel will lose a figure nearly as synonymous with it as Eloise when its longest-serving doorman retires Thursday after 46 years on the job.",
"Ed Trinka, whose retirement coincides with his 65th birthday, joined the hotel 1963.",
"Ed Trinka, whose retirement coincides with his 65th birthday, joined the hotel's staff in 1963 as a teenager.",
"He spent 40 years at the fabled lodging's Fifth Avenue entrance, relocating to its doorway facing Central Park South during the property's renovation and partial conversion to condominiums several years ago.",
"Now as much a Central Park South fixture as the horse-drawn carriages that line the park's southern perimeter, the gregarious Trinka is known as the \"mayor of 59th Street.\"",
"On a recent afternoon, he seemed to know every other passerby, exchanging a constant stream of hellos with chauffeurs and doormen from adjacent tony apartment buildings and, of course, the Plaza's residents.",
"Over his more than four decades manning the Plaza's entrance, Trinka has met countless celebrities -- or \"all of them,\" as he puts it.",
"After his first celebrity encounter at the hotel with the Beatles, he's catered to a long procession of big names, including Joe DiMaggio, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Liza Minnelli.",
"Marla Maples, ex-wife of one-time Plaza owner Donald Trump, would regularly peck Trinka on the cheek when she saw him.",
"Trinka says he has an autographed photo of Richard Nixon -- a token of gratitude from the former president -- hanging on proud display at his home.",
"Trinka says he has thoroughly enjoyed his lengthy stay at the portal to history and glamour.",
"\"I never had a bad day in all the years.\"",
"Nonetheless, with all those years at the hotel under his belt, Trinka felt it was time to \"bow out gracefully.\"",
"As he transitions to retirement, Trinka says he'll miss the front-row view of Central Park and the hotel's clientele -- the \"greatest people in the world.\"",
"He also concedes he'll miss \"the women.\"",
"The building's inhabitants are not eager for his departure.",
"\"He's a gentleman, refined -- you don't find these people anymore,\" lamented resident Joan Spain.",
"Trinka's replacement, Jimmy O'Connell, is keenly aware of the large shoes he'll have to fill, saying he'd be satisfied if he \"could be half the doorman\" Trinka is.",
"The hotel will bid farewell to Trinka in characteristically grand fashion on Thursday afternoon.",
"After a champagne send-off in the hotel's landmarked Oak Room, its management will present him with an opportunity to view the Plaza from the vantage point of the countless guests he's greeted over the years: He'll be given a free stay at the hotel.",
"In addition to a trove of anecdotes about celebrities, Trinka acquired something else during his tenure at the Plaza: a new name.",
"Years ago, the hotel gave him a nametag that mistakenly read Edward, even though his full name is Edwin.",
"He came to embrace the errant nametag, neglecting to correct people when they called him Edward and even naming his own son Edward."
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"Ed Trinka, who joined the hotel in 1963, turns 65 and retires after 46 years on the job .",
"The gregarious Trinka is known as the \"mayor of 59th Street\"\nDoorman gets a free stay at the hotel as part of his retirement gift ."
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"NEW YORK (CNN) -- The mother of a 17-year-old girl who disappeared while on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, has identified her daughter on grainy hotel surveillance video.",
"Brittanee Marie Drexel's mother on Friday confirmed it was her daughter seen in a hotel surveillance video.",
"\"When I saw her profile it was confirmed,\" Dawn Drexel said Friday on \"Nancy Grace.\"",
"Drexel's daughter, Brittanee, was last seen on Saturday, several days after she traveled to Myrtle Beach against her mother's wishes.",
"In the video, a girl wearing shorts and flip-flops walks in and later out of the doors of a hotel on Saturday evening.",
"Brittanee Drexel supposedly was on her way to meet friends at another hotel nearby.",
"Watch her mom talk about spotting her » .",
"Meanwhile, Myrtle Beach Police reportedly have shifted some search efforts about 40 miles to Georgetown County, based on tips.",
"But there is still no sign of the high school junior from Rochester, New York.",
"Dawn Drexel said she had forbidden her daughter to go to Myrtle Beach, a popular destination for high school and college spring break.",
"But Brittanee and her friends apparently drove the 850 miles to the coastal city anyway.",
"Drexel said her daughter had about $100 with her.",
"Although they stayed in touch by phone and spoke on Saturday, Drexel said she believed the girl was calling from Rochester when she was actually in Myrtle Beach.",
"Drexel has now gone to the city where her daughter was last seen, helping in the search for Brittanee.",
"\"We're going to all of the businesses and restaurants on Ocean Boulevard,\" Drexel said, but she admitted that she is concerned something may have happened to her daughter.",
"\"I just have a gut feeling that because the stories don't match, things aren't making sense to me,\" Drexel said, referring to reported contradictions in the information Brittanee's friends have given police.",
"Authorities have not named any suspects or persons of interest in the case."
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"Mom confirms that her daughter is the girl seen in a hotel surveillance video .",
"Brittanee Drexel, 17, was last seen Saturday in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina .",
"Dawn Drexel tells CNN she forbade daughter to go to resort city during spring break .",
"Mom has arrived in Myrtle Beach to assist police in search for her daughter."
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"Swine flu may be inspiring fear worldwide, but for Stephan Zielinski of San Francisco, California, it inspired a song.",
"The genes underlying swine flu inspired one amateur musician to compose music based on it.",
"The virus has the classification H1N1 because it includes two key viral proteins, hemagglutinin (H) and neuraminidase (N).",
"Zielinski took the genetic sequence of a variant of hemagglutinin and created a computer algorithm to turn it into music.",
"Zielinski, 41, is not a biochemist or a professional musician -- he's a writer, photographer, computer programmer, and blogger who creates music in his spare time.",
"But he's fascinated that, even though biologists can map the genome of the virus and predict what the hemagglutinin protein looks like, the human body still cannot distinguish it as the \"bad guy\" -- at least, not until there's a vaccine.",
"Listen to the song .",
"\"Although the map is there and you can even make a song out of it, we can't explain it to these itty bitty little cells in body,\" he said.",
"Using computer programs he created himself, as well as a commercial product, Zielinski composed his song by assigning instruments and musical notes to various properties of the protein.",
"Zielinski took the various categories of amino acids, the building blocks of the protein, and assigned each a different instrument -- piano, organ, low synthesizer, percussion.",
"The melody was created by assigning notes to specific amino acids.",
"Each beat of the song also corresponds to one of numerous amino acids.",
"The work was done entirely with a computer and took about six hours Tuesday, he said.",
"Learn more about swine flu » .",
"He first learned of the sequence through an immunologist friend at the Mayo Clinic, he said.",
"Zielinski saw it as a form of highly organized information that a human did not design.",
"\"The only way I could look at that and make sense of it, since I'm not a biochemist, was, well, I could try translating it into another very organized form of information that people do, and then see if I could hear anything.",
"And the answer, of course, turned out to be no.\"",
"But even if the mystery of the virus did not reveal itself in musical form, the result is a curiously melodic, innovative, somewhat soothing work.",
"Dr. Jay Steinberg, infectious disease specialist at Emory University Hospital Midtown in Atlanta, Georgia, called it \"nice ambient music\" that's reminiscent of Brian Eno.",
"Less methodical swine flu songs are also emerging on YouTube.",
"User \"CelicaAaron\" parodies the Jonas Brothers' song \"Lovebug,\" crooning, \"I can't get your snout out of my mouth / I'm sick to my stomach all the time.\"",
"A short spoken-word effort by user \"Micfri\" warns, \"You know who has swine flu? Pigs!\""
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"He created an algorithm that assigns instruments and notes to amino acids .",
"YouTube users are also posting swine flu songs ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sheila Wash greets her son and daughter, 13-year-old Cecil and 9-year-old Sheliah, every day when their school buses arrive \"home.\"",
"Sheila Wash says being homeless has been an \"eye-opening experience\" for her.",
"They talk about the school day, their homework and even joke that Sheliah can't remember what she ate for lunch.",
"The fourth-grader wonders aloud, \"What did we have?",
"We had something good.\"",
"But it's hardly a homecoming for any of them.",
"The Wash family has been homeless since 2007, after Sheila lost her government job.",
"She says unemployment benefits quickly ran out and, as she searched for a job, the family was forced to move six times in the last two years.",
"They're now living in the Family Forward Shelter in Washington.",
"\"I just thank God we have a roof over our head right now.",
"You have to accept the things that come to you.",
"You don't like them but, you know, until you can get your foot forward, you do what you have to do.",
"We just keep going,\" Wash said.",
"Wash's situation was only made worse as the economic recession set in.",
"Jobs became harder and harder to find with more competition for each position.",
"She says she's still searching.",
"The Washes are part of the changing face of homelessness in America today.",
"For years, homelessness has been depicted as that of an individual man or woman living on the street and begging for money.",
"But with the perfect storm of the foreclosure crisis and the faltering economy, more and more families are becoming homeless.",
"According to a recent count by the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, the number of homeless families in the Washington region alone has jumped 15 percent since last year.",
"There are several national estimates of homelessness, but many are dated or based on dated information.",
"TheU.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development points to a study done in 2007 -- before the brunt of the foreclosure crisis hit --which stated that about 3.5 million people, 1.35 million of them children, are likely to experience homelessness in a given year.",
"That study was conducted by the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty .",
"\"People lose their jobs.",
"Their monthly household expenses spiral out of control because maybe their car broke down that month, and when you have such a tight budget with high rental costs, there is no room for error.",
"And so that is what really leads families to the shelter door,\" said Mary Cunningham, author of \"Preventing and Ending Homelessness - Next Steps.\"",
"Reflecting on their struggles over the last few years, Sheila calls it \"eye-opening.\"",
"\"It's like they say you never know [someone] until you walk in their shoes, so truly I know now and if I ever get out [of] this situation, I will always give back to people less fortunate than I am because I know their struggles,\" Wash said.",
"School officials in Prince George's County, Maryland, where the two Wash children go to school, say a day doesn't go by without the need to enroll another child as homeless.",
"Denise Ross, supervisor for the school district's Homeless Education Office, said they've been inundated with requests.",
"\"Some of them are embarrassed, some of them are scared, some of them are sad.",
"They're just not sure what's going to happen next,\" Ross said.",
"\"Students who are displaced or homeless students feel that school is a safe haven.",
"They really want to come to school.",
"They really want to attend school.\"",
"For homeless students, Prince George's County Schools offers free transportation to and from school, free breakfast and lunch, help with school supplies and also clothing.",
"\"Either in the shuffle of being evicted or moving from shelter to shelter or place to place, their clothes may not have followed them.",
"Or may have been set out and somebody may have taken them.",
"So they may only have [the] clothes that are on their back.",
"Our intent is always to provide them with at least three complete sets,\" Ross said.",
"Sheila Wash says school is not only important because of her children's education, but it has also been an important source of stability in their lives.",
"\"[A] very big help,\" she says.",
"And help they still need with the obstacles ahead.",
"Watch Kate Bolduan's report on the Washes' plight » .",
"The Family Forward Shelter is a hypothermia shelter, only open through the winter, which means the Wash family needs to find another temporary home, and they haven't had much luck.",
"But with a smile that seems to never fade, 9-year-old Sheliah describes the one wish that keeps her family going.",
"\"I wish we had a house with a car,\" she says.",
"\"I pray that my mom, that we wake up in the morning and that [we] get a house and everything we wanted.\""
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"Sheila Wash and her two kids have been homeless since 2007, after she lost her job .",
"School officials in the Washes' district say more of their students are homeless .",
"Author: Having \"no room for error\" on finances often sends families to shelter door .",
"By one count, homelessness in the D.C. area has jumped by 15% over last year ."
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"(CNN) -- At least four people died when a tour bus crashed Tuesday on the Pacific Coast Highway, California Highway Patrol spokesman Brian Wiest said.",
"The crashed bus is on its side across the southbound lanes.",
"\"There were people ejected,\" Wiest said.",
"Highway 101 near Soledad, California, was closed in both directions for about 2½ hours after the crash, which injured 38 people, authorities said.",
"The highway patrol later opened the northbound lanes, using one for northbound traffic and the other for southbound traffic.",
"The bus belongs to Orion Pacific, a charter service that provides trips \"across the USA and around the world,\" according to its Web site.",
"No one answered CNN's call to Orion Pacific.",
"At least some of the passengers on the bus were French, said Jacques de Noray, spokesman for the French consulate in San Francisco.",
"The Soledad Fire Department said 12 ambulances and seven helicopters were dispatched to the scene.",
"The California Highway Patrol said the crash took place at about 3:23 p.m. while the bus was en route from San Francisco to Santa Maria, about 230 miles down the coast.",
"Soledad is about halfway between the two cities.",
"The cause of the crash had not been determined."
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"12 ambulances, 7 helicopters dispatched to the scene .",
"The cause of the crash has not been determined ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former congressman and Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp died Saturday at age 73 after a battle with cancer, his family announced.",
"Jack Kemp, a former congressman from New York, was the GOP's vice presidential candidate in 1996.",
"A onetime professional football player, Kemp served nine terms in Congress as a representative from New York and was former Sen. Bob Dole's running mate in 1996.",
"He was a leading advocate of \"supply-side\" tax cuts, advancing the argument that cutting taxes would boost economic growth and yield more revenue for the federal government.",
"\"The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea, and I like to think that I have spent my life trying to promote good ideas,\" he told CNN in a 1996 interview.",
"Kemp \"passed peacefully into the presence of the Lord\" Sunday evening, a family statement said.",
"He disclosed his illness in January.",
"Watch . \"During the treatment of his cancer, Jack expressed his gratitude for the thoughts and prayers of so many friends, a gratitude which the Kemp family shares,\" the family said.",
"Watch how Jack Kemp made transition from football to politics » .",
"Kemp quarterbacked the Buffalo Bills to back-to-back American Football League championships in 1964 and 1965, before the merger that created the modern NFL.",
"When he retired in 1970 after 13 seasons, the California native ran for Congress and represented the Buffalo area for 18 years in the House of Representatives.",
"View photos of Jack Kemp's life » .",
"\"He championed free-market principles that improved the lives of millions of Americans and helped unleash an entrepreneurial spirit that all of us still benefit from today,\" Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, said in a statement issued late Saturday.",
"The 1981 tax cuts signed into law by Ronald Reagan, which cut marginal tax rates from 70 percent to 50 percent, bore Kemp's name as a co-sponsor.",
"Critics mocked the policy as \"trickle-down\" economics and pointed to the decade's growing budget deficits as evidence that supply-side theories didn't work, but it has been GOP orthodoxy ever since.",
"Kemp mounted an unsuccessful presidential bid in 1988, losing the Republican primaries to George H.W.",
"Bush. But once in office, Bush made Kemp his secretary of housing and urban development -- a post Kemp used to promote what he called an \"empowerment\" agenda of tax breaks for urban businesses and expanded home ownership.",
"iReport.com: Share your memories of Kemp .",
"Unlike many of the other conservatives of his era, Kemp actively courted African-American support.",
"In 1992, he told CNN's \"Larry King Live\" that the GOP \"could be a Lincoln party in terms of attracting black and brown and men and women of color and low-income status and immigrant status who want a shot at the American dream for their children.\"",
"CNN Political Director Sam Feist contributed to this report."
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"Kemp announced in January he was battling cancer .",
"Before politics, Kemp was a professional football quarterback .",
"Kemp also served as secretary of housing and urban development (1989-1993)"
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"Editor's note: Mark Gendreau, MD, is senior staff physician and vice chairman of emergency medicine at Lahey Clinic, Burlington, Massachusetts, and assistant professor of emergency medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston.",
"His interests include health issues associated with commercial air travel, including transmission of infectious diseases.",
"Dr. Mark Gendreau says swine flu is focusing attention on how to avoid getting a disease while traveling by air.",
"(CNN) -- The novel swine flu is showing the world just how interconnected we are and how commercial aircraft can serve as vehicles of rapid disease spread.",
"I am frequently asked: What is the risk of catching an illness while flying?",
"In a nutshell, the risk of getting an infection while you're in an enclosed space such as an airplane depends upon three factors: The infectiousness of the contagious person spreading the illness; the degree of your exposure (how close you are to the contagious person and for how long); and the ventilation of the space or passenger cabin.",
"We really have no control over the infectiousness of our fellow passengers, and usually, you really don't have much of a choice about your seating partners.",
"So the exposure is pure chance.",
"But this doesn't mean that you are doomed.",
"Most respiratory viral infectious diseases -- like influenza and the common cold -- transmit via droplets contaminated with the offending microorganism when the infectious person coughs or sneezes.",
"These droplets are propelled no farther than 3 feet and can land on an inanimate object -- such as a seat, overhead bin or seat tray -- or on your body.",
"This is why hand hygiene is so critical and is the single most significant thing you can do to protect yourself and your family when you are traveling or out in public.",
"Study after study shows marked reductions in transmission in public spaces when hand hygiene is practiced, and a recent study found nearly undetectable influenza particle levels after hands contaminated with influenza were washed with either soap and water or an over-the-counter gel containing at least 50 percent alcohol.",
"Sanitize your hands before eating, drinking and after retrieving something from the overhead bin or returning from the restroom, and you have just cut your chances of getting infected by at least 40 percent.",
"One of my disappointments with the airline industry is its lack of providing alcohol-based hand sanitizers to passengers.",
"Such a service would go a long way in eliminating infection spread within aircraft.",
"iReport.com: Have swine flu fears altered your travel plans?",
"Ventilation is the final crucial element to consider in minimizing infection spread.",
"Ventilation dilutes the concentration of infectious particles within any confined space, thereby reducing the probability of infection.",
"Experience shows us that transmission becomes widespread within the passenger cabin involving all sections when the ventilation system is not working -- as evidenced by an influenza outbreak in 1979 involving passengers being kept aboard grounded aircraft with an inoperative ventilation system.",
"Air circulation patterns aboard standard commercial aircraft are side-to-side (laminar), with air entering the cabin from overhead, circulating across the aircraft and exiting the cabin near the floor.",
"Little to no front-to -back (longitudinal) airflow takes place.",
"This air circulation pattern \"compartmentalizes\" the air flow into sections, thereby limiting the spread of airborne particles throughout the passenger cabin.",
"Ventilation can involve either 100 percent fresh air in which outside air enters and leaves the cabin in a single pass or a system in which various fractions of air are recirculated from the aircraft cabin and mixed with fresh air.",
"Most commercial aircraft in service recirculate 50 percent of the air delivered to the passenger cabin for improved control of cabin circulation, humidity and fuel efficiency.",
"The recirculated air usually passes through high-efficiency particulate (HEPA) filters before delivery into the cabin.",
"HEPA filtering of recirculated cabin air to minimize exposure to infectious particles is established within scientific literature, practiced daily in health care facilities and is strongly endorsed by the medical community and cabin health experts.",
"However, oddly enough, the Federal Aviation Administration, its British counterpart, the Civil Aviation Authority, and Europe's Joint Aviation Authorities do not require the use of these filters on commercial airlines.",
"Efforts to improve international regulations regarding the certification, inspection and maintenance of aircraft environmental control systems are needed.",
"To minimize the risk of disease spread by aircraft, regulations requiring HEPA filters for any aircraft that uses recirculated air should be seriously considered.",
"In the meantime, you can improve the ventilation at your seat by turning on the overhead air vent to low and positioning the airflow to be slightly in front of your face.",
"This may create enough air turbulence to push a viral particle from landing on your face and mucous membranes.",
"Finally, face masks are effective.",
"In 2003, during the severe acute respiratory syndrome epidemic, 76 percent of Hong Kong residents wore simple masks, and in this case, mask use was associated with a lower incidence of SARS, as well as upper respiratory tract infections and influenza.",
"A recent analysis of public health interventions used during the SARS epidemic suggests that the use of masks by the public was 68 percent effective in decreasing rates of infection, with simple face masks, and 91 percent effective for more sophisticated N95 face masks.",
"The take-home message is this: Use a surgical mask when you are traveling to areas that have reported cases of swine flu and bring an additional one to give to anyone near you who forgot one or appears to be sick and is coughing or sneezing.",
"Prevention of a disease outbreak is the most important means of control and requires a proactive approach.",
"The aviation industry and medical community should better educate the general public about health issues related to air travel and infection control.",
"The only way to eliminate any risk of cross-infection in the aircraft cabin -- or the rapid worldwide spread of an infectious agent -- is to prevent would-be passengers who are either substantially exposed to or carrying transmissible infections from flying.",
"This needs to come from education and promoting individual responsibility, since the systematic screening of passengers for contagious diseases is impractical.",
"Although thermal scanners used in airports may detect travelers with symptoms, they are not effective since people exposed to an infectious disease could travel without any signs or symptoms and yet still be infectious.",
"The late Nobel Laureate Joshua Lederberg once said \"The microbe that felled one child in a distant continent yesterday can reach yours today, and seed a global pandemic tomorrow.\"",
"True words.",
"The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Mark Gendreau."
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"He says three things affect the likelihood of your getting sick from a plane trip .",
"Gendreau: Sick passengers, your exposure and ventilation are key factors .",
"He says using hand sanitizers on planes would help prevent spread ."
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"(CNN) -- The Humane Society has accused a federally funded primate center of mistreating chimpanzees and other primates, saying that some animals showed signs of psychosis and self-mutilation.",
"New Iberia Research Center cages about 325 chimps on its 100 acres.",
"It also has about 6,000 monkeys.",
"The allegations against the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana, which houses more than 6,500 primates, came after a nine-month undercover investigation.",
"The center denies the allegations.",
"\"We found animals living in isolation, exhibiting self-mutilating behavior, psychosis, all sorts of emotional and physical problems at this laboratory,\" Humane Society President Wayne Pacelle told CNN on Wednesday.",
"The Humane Society's undercover investigator, who worked as a laboratory technician with a hidden camera, revealed 338 violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act, which sets standards for the treatment of animals in labs, Pacelle said.",
"The Humane Society posted some of its secret footage on its Web site.",
"The footage includes an animal with what the group said was a self-inflicted wound, another animal jumping in circles in its cage, and chimpanzees screaming as lab technicians approached with a dart gun.",
"The violations were filed in a 108-page complaint to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is required by law to enforce the Animal Welfare Act, the organization said.",
"Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said he will order a thorough investigation of animal welfare practices at the facility.",
"\"If the allegations prove to be true, the American public can expect the perpetrators to be held fully accountable.",
"I take the protection of animals very seriously, and will do my utmost to fully enforce the Animal Welfare Act,\" he said in a written statement.",
"The New Iberia Research Center, part of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, issued a statement saying that the videos \"distort acceptable standard procedures and incorrectly imply mistreatment of nonhuman primates at the New Iberia Research Center.\"",
"It added: \"We take very seriously our responsibility to care for the animals housed at the center and to carry out biomedical research according to federal rules and regulations.\"",
"The center further said it properly housed and cared for the animals.",
"It also said it complies with regulations of the USDA, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.",
"The Humane Society accused workers at New Iberia of hitting primates on the mouth, using \"painful\" dart guns and removing infant monkeys from their mothers.",
"The Humane Society also said it had documented evidence of \"rampant\" breeding of government-owned chimpanzees.",
"In 2007, the National Institutes of Health's National Center for Research Resources, following a 12-year moratorium, said it would no longer breed chimpanzees for research, citing financial reasons.",
"The New Iberia Research Center has received more than $37 million in grants from the NIH, according to the center's Web site.",
"The NIH said it has opened an investigation regarding the allegations and said it is working closely with the USDA.",
"However, it said it could not comment on the allegations while its investigation is under way.",
"\"The results will be available when the investigation is complete,\" the NIH said in a written statement.",
"\"We are committed to the safety and welfare of all animals in research.",
"All animals used in federally funded research are protected by laws, regulations, and policies to ensure they are used in the smallest numbers possible and with the greatest commitment to their comfort.\"",
"Pacelle said the most serious issue was the self-mutilation and \"nonstop pacing and circling, psychosis and other abnormal behaviors.\"",
"\"These are highly intelligent animals.",
"They have a sense of self, they have a sense of past and future, they have the wide range of emotions that we have,\" he said.",
"\"They should not be subjected to this long-term, decade-long isolation, and all these painful and physical procedures and the psychological torment in these laboratories.\"",
"The New Iberia Research Center says it offers a \"broad range of diagnostic, laboratory, and human resources for the development and characterization of nonhuman primate models for applied and basic research aimed at promoting human quality of life.\"",
"In its statement e-mailed to CNN, the center said it has made numerous contributions to public health improvements for the prevention and treatment of three forms of hepatitis, mumps, measles, chicken pox and mad cow disease.",
"CNN's Bill Caiaccio and Taylor Gandossy contributed to this report."
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"Society says undercover investigation found animal psychosis, self-mutilation .",
"Center denies allegations, says it properly housed and cared for the animals .",
"Agriculture secretary says he'll order investigation of facility's animal welfare practices .",
"New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana houses more than 6,500 primates ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- China has refused nine U.S. Navy ships and one Air Force jet entry to Hong Kong in the past month, U.S. military officials said Friday.",
"China has refused the USS Reuben James, seen in a 1989 photo, a Christmas port call in Hong Kong.",
"Senior Navy officials said that Beijing denied permission for the USS Reuben James, a Navy frigate, to make a holiday port call for sailors at the end of December.",
"The rejection occurred last week, at the same time China refused to allow the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier battle group into Hong Kong for a Thanksgiving holiday port call.",
"A U.S. Air Force C-17 flight that had been scheduled for a routine resupply of the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong also was denied permission to enter, Navy officials said.",
"The Kitty Hawk battle group was eventually granted permission to enter, but by then the ships were well on their way to port in Japan.",
"Days earlier, China refused to give two U.S. Navy minesweepers safe harbor in Hong Kong during a storm on the high seas.",
"The United States has filed a formal protest with China over the decisions.",
"U.S. officials are baffled about the reason or reasons for the port call refusals.",
"China recently has expressed concerns about U.S. arms sales to Taiwan and President Bush's October presentation of a Congressional Gold Medal to the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.",
"Watch China put the blame on the U.S. » .",
"There is speculation that the Chinese may have been conducting military exercises that they didn't want the U.S. Navy to see.",
"Others think the refusals may have been the result of a misunderstanding.",
"Officials could not explain why the rejection of the Reuben James had not been disclosed before, even though reporters had repeatedly asked if there were any other pending port calls.",
"One senior Navy official expressed dismay that the information had not been made public by the Pentagon.",
"White House deputy spokesman Scott Stanzel told reporters the White House is \"aware\" of the latest refusals and referred reporters to the Pentagon.",
"Stanzel said a \"clarification\" on the matter was being sought from Beijing.",
"White House and other Bush administration officials have sought to defuse tensions with China, saying the United States wants to move ahead on broader issues of military cooperation.",
"Navy officials, meanwhile, say Japan is tightening approvals for Chinese navy visits into its ports.",
"Crew members from a Chinese ship making a port call in Japan may not be allowed to tour a Japanese Aegis warship.",
"The U.S.-designed Aegis weapons system enables coordinated operations against threats from aircraft and missiles, surface ships and submarines.",
"It is not clear if the Japanese decision was made at the request of the United States.",
"E-mail to a friend ."
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"Frigate USS Reuben James not allowed to enter Hong Kong for port call .",
"China last week refused port call for USS Kitty Hawk battle group .",
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"(CNN) -- Swiss super-combined world skiing champion Daniel Albrecht was airlifted to hospital after a sickening crash on Kitzbuehel's Streif course on Thursday.",
"Albrecht nose-dives down Kitzbuehel's Streif course after crashing during training for a World Cup downhill.",
"Albrecht, who was said to have suffered concussion and bruising to a lung, was in training for the weekend's World Cup downhill at the Austrian venue when he lost control approaching the bottom of the run.",
"The 25-year-old received lengthy treatment on the slopes before being flown to hospital at St. Johann, where he regained consciouness before being put in an induced coma.",
"An induced coma puts the brain in hibernation so it can recuperate and allows swelling in the brain to ease.",
"Helmuth Obermoser, the official race doctor, said in a brief statement that Albrecht had bleeding on the brain and a lung contusion.",
"Albrecht took the season's opening giant slalom at Solden in October and scored a second victory and fourth of his career two months later in Alta Badia, Italy, where he became the first Swiss winner in 10 years.",
"Thursday's fall came on a similar section at Kitzbuehel that saw American Scott Macartney suffer head injuries in a crash last season -- an episode that led officials to make changes to the course."
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"Super-combined world skiing champion was training for a World Cup downhill .",
"Swiss Albrecht was airlifted to hospital after lengthy treatment on the slopes ."
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"LONDON, England (CNN) -- From ancient Phoenician galleys to 21st century super yachts, a lot has changed about the way people travel the high seas over the centuries.",
"The Mirabella V, built in 2003, is the world's biggest single-masted sailing yacht, with a mast that is nearly 300 ft tall.",
"Whether it's one intrepid \"micro-yachtsman\" navigating the Atlantic in a boat the size of a bathtub, or an elite racing team shattering world records in a state-of-the-art catamaran, these voyages all have one thing in common: they have altered the way mankind looks at the world.",
"MainSail takes a look at the ships, and the revolutionaries they carried on their way.",
"Voyage of the Beagle .",
"When: 1831 Who: Naturalist Charles Darwin Where: Galapagos Islands The boat: The HMS Beagle was a 90 ft, 10-gun former British Navy warship built in 1820.",
"The ship was repurposed and commissioned for civilian exploration voyages in 1825.",
"How long: Five years Legacy: Aboard the HMS Beagle, Darwin collected specimens and began to develop his theories of evolution, which would later crystallize in \"The Origin of Species.\"",
"Columbus discovers the New World .",
"When: 1492 Who: Italian explorer Christopher Columbus Where: From Spain to the Caribbean The boats: The Santa Maria was a 70 ft, three-masted ship built from pine and oak, that could carry 40 men.",
"The Nina and the Pinta were both smaller, nimbler boats with triangle-shaped masts better for navigating tricky waterways.",
"The square-sail Santa Maria ran aground in modern-day Haiti on Christmas Day 1492.",
"Legacy: Searching for a new way into the East Indies spice route, it was aboard these three ships that Columbus unintentionally discovered the Caribbean.",
"'Micro-yachtsman' crosses the Atlantic in miniature boat .",
"When: 1993 Who: American Hugo Vihlen Where: Across the North Atlantic, from Newfoundland to Cornwall, England The boat: The Father's Day, the world's tiniest sailboat at a length of 5 ft 4 in, was so small that Vihlen had to roll up into a ball to sleep, and couldn't stand up without opening the hatch and risk taking on water.",
"Likened to a space shuttle, the boat is made from fiberglass-enclosed Airex foam and was fitted with GPS, a water maker, VHF radio and SSB/Ham radio.",
"Legacy: Aboard the Father's Day, Vihlen became the world's first \"micro-yachtsman,\" but it wasn't all smooth sailing -- the boat was surrounded by whales, nearly capsized, and caught the tail end of a hurricane during its 105-day voyage.",
"What world-changing voyages would you add to our list?",
"Sound Off below . Magellan navigates Cape Horn .",
"When: 1519 Who: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan Where: Around the world bypassing Cape Horn, South America via a narrow strait The boat: Given to Magellan by King Charles I of Spain, The Victoria was the only one of five ships to complete the trip successfully.",
"Only 18 of its original 237 crew members survived and the ship was so badly damaged it was only kept afloat by the crew continuously pumping water out of the hull.",
"How long: Three years Legacy: During the first ever circumnavigation of the world Magellan discovered a shortcut through a waterway in the southern tip of Chile, which helped sailors to avoid the almost continuous ocean storms off Cape Horn.",
"The voyage also established the need for an international date line -- as the explorers found upon return that their calendars were one day off.",
"Pilgrims sail to Plymouth Rock .",
"When: 1620 Who: The Pilgrims Where: From England to Plymouth Rock The boat: Primarily used as a cargo ship, in this instance the Mayflower, which was estimated to be between 90 and 110 ft, was used to transport 102 English separatists.",
"How long: Two months Legacy: Half the Pilgrims died during the first winter on the Mayflower, but, in America, the ship continues to be a symbol of the bold English separatists who would encounter great hardships while they explored, and established colonies the modern-day U.S. east coast.",
"Cook charts the Pacific .",
"When: 1772-1775, 1778-1780 Who: English cartographer and explorer Captain James Cook Where: Pacific Ocean, Antarctic Circle The boat: Called \"the fittest ship for service I have ever seen\" by Cook, the HMS Resolution was fitted with the most advanced technology of the day, including an \"Azimuth compass,\" an ice anchor, a fresh water distiller, and 24 guns and small cannons.",
"How long: Five years Legacy: Cook charted maps of the Pacific so accurate that many were still used up until 50 years ago, and proved the nonexistence of the mythical \"Terra Australis\" continent believed to exist in the south Pacific.",
"In the process, the HMS Resolution became the first ship to cross the Antarctic Circle.",
"First solo circumnavigation of the globe .",
"When: 1895 Who: Canadian sailor Joshua Slocum Where: From Boston to Rhode Island The boat: Given as a gift to Slocum in 1892, the rotting 36 ft vessel, The Spray, the sailor restored it for \"$553.62, and 13 months of my own labor.\"",
"How long: Three years Legacy: Slocum became the first person in history to successfully circumnavigate the world solo upon his return to Rhode Island in June 1898, inspiring generations of sailors to come.",
"Yacht with tallest mast ever sets sail .",
"When: Built in 2003 Who: Owned by American Joe Vittoria, former CEO of Avis Where: From Portsmouth, England to the Mediterranean Sea The boat: With an overall length of 247 ft, the Mirabella V is the largest single-masted boat in the world.",
"The super-yacht's unprecedented mast extends up nearly 300 ft into the sky, and its main sail is over 16,000 sq ft -- the biggest in the world.",
"Legacy: No expense was spared in the construction of Vittoria's luxurious yacht, which cost over $50 million to build.",
"The Mirabella V spends her winters in the Carribean, her summers in the Mediterranean, and can be rented for around $400,000 per week -- but one tip: there isn't a single bridge in the world that the yacht can sail underneath.",
"Phoenicians build empire on the seas When: 1200-600 B.C.",
"Who: Expert sailors of Phoenicia's maritime empire Where: Mediterranean Sea The boats: The Phoenicians improved upon the galley -- the ancient ship powered by rows of human oarsmen -- by inventing the \"bireme,\" a galley propelled by a second row of oars.",
"Legacy: Through their skillful use ships to trade valuable Tyrian purple dyes, the seafaring Phoenicians -- who could be considered the world's first \"global capitalists\" -- built a maritime empire from Spain to the Middle East that dominated commercial trade in the Mediterranean for the better part of a millennium.",
"Fastest circumnavigation of the globe .",
"When: 2005 Who: French yachtsman Bruno Peyron Where: Around the world The boat: The Orange II, a 121 ft \"maxicat,\" a catamaran designed for ocean racing, with super heavy-duty sails that can withstand prolonged exposure to heavy winds.",
"How long: 50 days, 16 hours, 20 minutes and four seconds Legacy: The Orange II shattered the previous world record for the fastest circumnavigation of the globe by nearly eight days -- and Peyron and his 12-man crew currently hold the Jules Verne Trophy, the prize given to the world's fastest circumnavigators."
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"(CNN) -- An overcompetitive parent gets into an argument with a stubborn coach because he thinks his child isn't getting enough playing time -- it's a familiar scene on youth sports fields across America.",
"One critic of the Rhode Island plan said giving parents a outlet for petty complaints \"opens up a can of worms.\"",
"Now, a Rhode Island senator wants the state to step in and create a formal outlet for the \"concerns and objections\" some parents have.",
"Democratic Sen. John Tassoni Jr. introduced a bill that would create a youth sports oversight council on the state level.",
"The council would act as mediator in disputes between parents of youth athletes and sports officials.",
"In answer to critics, Tassoni said Friday that the notion the bill would mean \"big brother\" could begin to oversee youth sports is a misconception.",
"The bill cites the need for a third party to step in at times, stating that \"parents lack a proper outlet to share concerns and objections about youth sports.\"",
"But the parents are the biggest problem, said Matt Rodrigues, general manager and owner of Teamworks youth sports program in Warwick, Rhode Island.",
"\"They are crazy, especially in Rhode Island.",
"The kids on the court are scared because the parents are yelling and screaming,\" Rodrigues said.",
"But the answer, he said, is not to create a council that \"makes decisions we can deal with ourselves.\"",
"A similar council exists in Waterford, Connecticut -- run by the town, not the state.",
"\"It kind of surprises me that [Rhode Island would] do it on such a large level like that,\" said Bruce Miller, president of the Waterford Youth Sports Council.",
"Waterford's council is made up of representatives from the town's 11 sports leagues.",
"Tassoni's bill states that at least four of the members of the state council would be regional youth sports representatives.",
"He said the council is needed because right now there is no place to go to resolve disputes.",
"\"There's no place right now to bring a case forward and have a third party take a look at it,\" he said.",
"Under the bill, Republican Gov.",
"Donald Carcieri would appoint seven volunteers -- approved by the state Senate and House -- to sit on a panel called the Rhode Island Youth Sports Oversight Council.",
"Tassoni said the seven-member council wouldn't be made up of politicians, but ex-coaches, ex-officials and ex-athletic directors.",
"Some adults involved in youth sports aren't happy about it.",
"One blogger posted concerns on the Web site of a Rhode Island newspaper, the Providence Journal.",
"\"Hey Tassoni: What do you do, [lie] in bed and think to yourself -- 'what haven't me and my cronies either screwed up, bankrupted or embarrassed yet?",
"Hmmmm ... haven't touched Little League yet.'",
"Do me a favor -- and I ask this as a coach and a parent -- stay the hell away from my field!!!!\"",
"wrote the blogger.",
"Others think the government should \"concentrate on the state.\"",
"Rodrigues of the Teamworks program said giving parents a place to do petty complaining only \"opens up a can of worms.\"",
"He said the council just \"sounds like another way to take power away from our programs -- they have enough [power].\"",
"The governor has not taken a position on the legislation and will not until he reviews the bill, press secretary Amy Kempe said Friday.",
"She added, however, that \"there appears to be some vague language and constitutional issues.\"",
"The bill states that the volunteers on the council would be expected to \"provide oversight and mediation\" to youth sports programs in the state, as well as develop and adopt a process to review and address complaints.",
"In addition, the council would have the authority to establish and collect fines.",
"But the bill does not go into detail about how to implement the reviewing and fining processes.",
"The bill, with some revisions, is scheduled to be heard by the state Senate on Wednesday.",
"Tassoni hopes to have the council in place by June or July."
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"Conflicts between parents, coaches and officials all too common in youth sports .",
"Rhode Island state senator wants state to create formal outlet for parents' concerns .",
"Similar council exists in Waterford, Connecticut -- run by the town, not the state .",
"Critic says giving parents a place for complaints opens \"can of worms\""
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"ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Eight cadets and staff members were killed in Pakistan during an an eight-hour standoff Monday with gunmen who stormed a police training center in Lahore, said Gen. Athar Abbas, a military spokesman.",
"Police fire into the air after retaking the police training center in Lahore attacked by militants.",
"The militants had been holed up on the top floor of a three-story building, said Rehman Malik, the head of the country's Interior Ministry.",
"Security forces gained control of the first two floors and eventually made their way to the top, finally taking control of it and arresting the gunmen Monday afternoon.",
"Television pictures showed security forces firing into the air from the roof of the building after the firefight.",
"\"The operation is over. Four terrorists were killed and three arrested,\" Interior Ministry Secretary Kamal Shah told Reuters.",
"Malik and Abbas confirmed the figures.",
"Abbas added some of the dead militants blew themselves up.",
"The gang of seven gunmen stormed the academy in the Manawan area of the eastern Pakistani city, said Malik.",
"Abbas had previously said 30 people were killed.",
"He cited the error on wrong information by his sources at the scene.",
"Watch more about the attack » .",
"At a news conference Monday night, Malik named the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Baitullah Mehsud, and his followers as the prime suspect in organizing the attack.",
"Mehsud is also accused of plotting the assassination of former PM Benazir Bhutto.",
"At least 78 people were wounded in the attack, authorities said.",
"Lahore is the same city where gunmen opened fire March 10 on a bus carrying members of the Sri Lankan national cricket team on their way to a stadium for a match.",
"The well-coordinated attack wounded at least eight members of the team and killed a driver and six Pakistani police officers.",
"In Monday's incident, the attackers hurled grenades, then stormed the compound and opened fire while officers were taking part in their morning drill.",
"About 800 officers train at the facility, but authorities could not say exactly how many were inside at the time.",
"The attackers, some in police uniforms, took dozens of officers hostage, said Asim Rizwan, spokesman for governor of Punjab -- the province where Lahore is located.",
"Paramilitary forces and the army descended on the scene.",
"Every few minutes, the gunmen detonated explosives or fired on reporters and police personnel outside, sending them scurrying for cover.",
"Angry onlookers pumped their fists in the air and cheered as police led away a suspect they had captured.",
"He had on him a grenade and a knife, officials told CNN.",
"CNN's Reza Sayah contributed to this report."
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"Leader of Pakistan's Taliban named as prime suspect .",
"Four militants dead, three captured, authorities say .",
"Lahore was site of attack on Sri Lankan cricket team earlier in March ."
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"WASHINGTON (CNN) -- From land, water and air, tens of thousands of police officers, federal agents and National Guardsmen are being deployed in an unprecedented effort to make sure the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama is safe.",
"A law enforcement agent looks toward Capitol Hill ahead of the inauguration on Tuesday.",
"\"Right now, we have no credible threat that there is any direction of interest on the inauguration,\" Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan told CNN.",
"FBI agents and intelligence officials have been checking with sources around the United States and the world to make sure no leads are overlooked, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said intelligence will be scrubbed and rescrubbed right through the inauguration.",
"\"We are literally going to be watching this every minute between now and the conclusion of events on the 20th,\" Chertoff said.",
"Federal officials acknowledge the inauguration of the first African-American U.S. president could be an attractive target.",
"Since Obama's election, the number of threats against him has increased, according to a recent federal intelligence assessment.",
"FBI officials say the number of tips coming in has increased, as is common before an inauguration.",
"Investigations, however, have not uncovered a real threat.",
"The FBI has been especially aggressive in examining white supremacy groups, which have ramped up their anti-Obama comments.",
"\"We have not seen any activity by the groups,\" said FBI Assistant Director Joseph Persichini.",
"\"We have seen a lot of chatter, we have seen a lot of discussions, we have seen some information via the Internet.",
"Again, but those are discussions. We look at the vulnerabilities and whether or not the groups are capable of taking on action.\"",
"Persichini said he believes the bureau has \"a good operational plan\" for dealing with the groups, but says that right now, there is no evidence they are trying to launch anything.",
"Watch more on inauguration security » .",
"The Secret Service is coordinating security for the inauguration, which will involve 58 federal, state and local agencies.",
"All of them are represented at the Secret Service command center, where they can communicate and work together to respond to any report of a possible problem.",
"Airspace restrictions around the Capitol are being tightened.",
"The U.S. Coast Guard is closing portions of the Potomac River.",
"Miles of roads will be closed, along with most of the bridges into the District of Columbia.",
"Checkpoints are going up, and undercover teams are being deployed to look for suspicious people or vehicles.",
"Explosives-sniffing dogs will be on hand to nose out bombs, and horses trained in crowd control are on duty.",
"Thousands of security cameras are being used to monitor activities, sharpshooters are being stationed, and sensors will be used to detect chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.",
"In addition to Secret Service agents, the security effort will involve 8,000 police officers from the District of Columbia and other jurisdictions, 10,000 National Guardsmen, about 1,000 FBI personnel, and hundreds of others from the Department of Homeland Security, the National Park Service and U.S. Capitol Police.",
"Another 20,000 members of the National Guard are ready to respond if there is an emergency, according to Chertoff.",
"Security planners have drawn up procedures to deal with improvised explosive devices, suicide bombers and the use of a weapon of mass destruction.",
"A recent intelligence assessment, however, said a lone wolf would pose the greatest potential threat.",
"Chertoff said an individual or small group planning to do harm is difficult to detect.",
"\"Whether the motivation is racism or some psychological disorder ... in an open society, it is impossible to keep a single individual from doing some damage,\" he said.",
"A major unknown is how large the crowd will be for Tuesday's activities.",
"Estimates have ranged from 1 million to 2 million.",
"The FBI's Persichini said only that \"we know it is going to draw a lot of people here to the nation's capital.\"",
"Those attending the swearing-in ceremony or entering the parade route will undergo tight screening, including passing through magnetometers.",
"Spectators who are unable to get into those events will be routed to the National Mall, which, for the first time, will be open from end to end for an inauguration.",
"Security there will be less stringent.",
"There has been extensive planning to ensure the crowds can be moved in an orderly and safe way, and to prevent a stampede if there is any kind of security incident.",
"Local and federal agencies have even consulted with a crowd expert.",
"Authorities say the massive security operation is not intended to deter people from coming to Washington.",
"\"Our efforts are to make sure people are safe,\" Secret Service spokesman Malcolm Wiley said.",
"\"We'd like for as many people to come as want to come.",
"And again, during our planning, we have made sure we could accommodate however many people decide to come.\"",
"That inaugural events are spread over a four-day period has made security even more challenging.",
"Organizers say they started their security planning the day after the last inauguration and ramped up their efforts in July.",
"Officials involved say this is the biggest event they have been involved in, but believe they are prepared.",
"\"There are a lot of things we all think about, and I'll admit that at 3 in the morning, I might wake up thinking about something, but I have to tell you, I am so confident in this plan,\" the Secret Service's Sullivan said.",
"\"I just don't see any benefit to worry, and I think we just have to go along the way we're going right now and do everything that we can do to make sure that this event is going to be a safe event, that this historical event will be an enjoyable event for everybody and that, quite frankly, that the day isn't about security, but the day is about our president and the day is about our country.\""
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"FBI has been especially aggressive in examining white supremacy groups .",
"A major unknown is how large the crowd will be for Tuesday's activities .",
"Security planners have drawn up procedures to deal with bombs, weapons ."
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"CNN -- The number of cholera deaths in Zimbabwe is now approaching 3,000, the World Health Organization says.",
"Two men rest in a cholera rehydration tent on the South Africa-Zimbabwe border in December.",
"Latest, WHO statistics show 2,971 deaths since the outbreak began in August, with 56,123 cases reported.",
"The epidemic has swept through a country wracked with political and economic crises.",
"Cholera is an intestinal disease caused by bacteria in contaminated water.",
"The epidemic has been aggravated by erratic water supplies, shortages of water purification chemicals, broken water and sewer pipes and uncollected garbage.",
"On top of that, the waste-disposing system has collapsed.",
"Children can be seen playing on heaps of uncollected garbage in the suburbs of most urban areas in Zimbabwe.",
"Last month, the government led by President Robert Mugabe declared the cholera epidemic a national emergency.",
"The country already was wracked by an enormous economic crisis, with a hyperinflationary economy and shortages of all essentials including food, fuel, cash, foreign currency and electricity.",
"Zimbabwe's rainy season peaks in January or February and ends in late March, and Zimbabwean Health Minister David Parirenyatwa warned the epidemic could get worse during the rainy season."
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"Zimbabwe's waste-disposing system has collapsed .",
"Health Minster David Parirenyatwa warns epidemic could get worse in rainy season ."
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"(CNN) -- Chris Rock is best known for two things: being funny and being crass.",
"\"If you're the president you only have two jobs: peace and money,\" Chris Rock said.",
"\"This is what people come to see.",
"I'm just doing my show,\" the comedian said with a laugh.",
"He's also known for his political commentary, but there's one person he's having a lot of trouble making fun of -- president-elect Barack Obama.",
"This is apparent in his new DVD \"Kill the Messenger,\" which combines three shows from his international tour: New York; London, England; and Johannesburg, South Africa.",
"\"It was a tour nobody wanted to do... because the general perception is that comedy doesn't translate,\" Rock said.",
"But thanks to the Internet, the world is a lot smaller than it was even 10 years ago.",
"And people are digging the same jokes, he said, including ones about John McCain and Sarah Palin.",
"As the DVD readies for release on January 20, CNN talked with Rock about his lack of Obama jokes, Inauguration Day and why racism will never die.",
"The following is an edited version of that interview: .",
"CNN: I watched the special last night, and I noticed that you did a lot of jokes about John McCain -- his age, his war hero story -- but not so many about Barack Obama.",
"Is it harder to make fun of Obama?",
"Chris Rock: He's just one of those guys, you know, like Will Smith.",
"There's no Will Smith jokes.",
"There's no Brad Pitt jokes.",
"You know, what are you going to say?",
"\"Ooh, you used to have sex with Jennifer Anniston.",
"Now you have sex with Angelina Jolie.",
"You're such a loser.\" What do you say? \"Ooh, your movies are big.",
"You make $20 million.\"",
"There's nothing to say about Brad Pitt.",
"CNN: Why is Obama like that?",
"Rock: It's like \"Ooh, you're young and virile and you've got a beautiful wife and kids.",
"You're the first African-American president.\"",
"You know, what do you say? CNN: As time goes on do you think it will get easier?",
"Rock: Of course, as time goes on.",
"At some point he's going to -- there's always slip-ups.",
"No one can survive that level of scrutiny without occasionally making it easy for a comedian.",
"CNN: Let's talk about the inauguration.",
"Are you going? Rock: No, I have to go to Sundance [Film Festival].",
"I've got a movie premiering at Sundance.",
"So I have to go to the whitest place in America -- Utah.",
"CNN: What's it going to be like for you on Inauguration Day?",
"Rock: It'll be a cool day.",
"It's weird. I've never watched an inauguration.",
"I've never watched anyone get sworn in.",
"You know, it's like Election Day and then you look up and somebody else is the president two months later.",
"It was never like, \"I can't wait till tomorrow.",
"Oh my god! They're going to swear in Jimmy Carter!\"",
"CNN: Are you going to watch this one, though?",
"Rock: I'll put it this way -- like any business is going to be getting done while this guy is getting sworn in.",
"Like I'm going to be in a meeting.",
"Everything is going to stop for however long it takes.",
"Hope they get to it -- hope it's not like I gotta listen to three different versions of \"The Star-Spangled Banner\" or something.",
"I hope it's not like Rosa Parks' funeral, where everybody f***ing speaks.",
"CNN: What are you hoping Barack Obama does for this country?",
"What do you think is his most important task?",
"Rock: You know, if you're the president you only have two jobs: peace and money.",
"That's it. I mean, it's like, what did Clinton do?",
"We were at peace and we had a budget surplus.",
"That's it. That's the gig. The closer you get us to those two goals, you know, that's pretty much the gig.",
"Is that too much to ask for? CNN: At one point in your act, you said, \"Racism will never die.",
"It will only multiply.\" Why do you believe that? Rock: Well, it's never going to die.",
"Maybe it won't multiply.",
"Is racism going to end?",
"No. It's not even race. People are always going to, you know, find something wrong with people who are not the exact same as them.",
"That's just what it is. Black, white, short, tall, religions, whatever.",
"People are bad, man.",
"CNN: How was it different playing for an audience in Africa?",
"Rock: You know it's weird -- it really wasn't that different.",
"I mean, that's why I love this special.",
"People are the same wherever you go.",
"And if they weren't, they wouldn't laugh at the same s**t. If they were so different they wouldn't know what I was talking about.",
"CNN: Stand-up comics I've talked to in the past say they like their shows to appear spontaneous.",
"But your new DVD stitches together three shows, illustrating to the audience how scripted comedy can be.",
"Why did you decide on that format?",
"Rock: You know, I don't believe in that \"come up with stuff on the spot.\"",
"I mean, honestly, that's why I think comedy, stand-up comedy, always plays such a back seat to music.",
"Like, would you go see a singer if you thought he just came up with the songs?",
"They wouldn't give out Grammys for songs that they just came up with.",
"You're going to go see someone at Radio City or Madison Square Garden, I think you'd like to know that they have an act before you spend $75.",
"So yeah, when you say \"came up with it right there,\" that's really cute when you paid $8 to get in and two-drink minimum.",
"When the ticket's $75, that's a whole other mindset."
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"There are no Barack Obama jokes, Rock says, just like there are no Brad Pitt jokes .",
"Rock: Playing for international crowds not that different than playing in U.S.\n\"Stand-up comedy always plays such a back seat to music,\" Rock says ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- One of two doctors charged with conspiring to furnish drugs to Anna Nicole Smith before her fatal overdose in 2007 surrendered to authorities and was jailed Monday, authorities said.",
"Anna Nicole Smith's boyfriend Howard K. Stern was among those charged last week.",
"Dr. Khristine Eroshevich surrendered at the Van Nuys, California, jail, said police and jail officials.",
"Bail was set at $20,000, but Eroshevich had not posted bail as of Monday afternoon.",
"Eroshevich was charged last week along with Howard K. Stern, Smith's longtime partner and attorney; and Dr. Sandeep Kapoor.",
"Stern and Kapoor were arrested and released from a Los Angeles County jail Thursday night after each posted a $20,000 bond.",
"All three are charged with eight felonies, including conspiring to furnish controlled substances, unlawfully prescribing a controlled substance and obtaining fraudulent prescriptions from June 2004 through January 2007, only weeks before Smith's death.",
"Kapoor and Eroshevich were also charged with obtaining a prescription for opiates by \"fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.\"",
"And each was charged with one count of obtaining a prescription for opiates by giving a false name or address, prosecutors said.",
"\"Anna was the center of a cruel tabloid feeding frenzy,\" Eroshevich's attorney, Adam Braun, told CNN in a statement Monday.",
"\"In the face of this, Dr. Eroshevich did her best to help the patient while protecting what little privacy Anna had left.",
"Any actions were done with the patient's well-being in mind and were certainly not criminal.\"",
"California Attorney General Jerry Brown said the doctors and Stern devised a plan to use fake names so Smith could be prescribed \"thousands of pills.\"",
"The former Playboy playmate and reality TV star was drugged \"almost to the point of stupefaction,\" Brown said.",
"\"The quantity of the drugs, the variety of the drugs, the combination at any given point, and her continuing to use that -- that, to a professional, is clear evidence of addiction,\" Brown said Friday.",
"\"These cocktails of methadone and antidepressants and sleeping pills and Xanax, you put all that into a cocktail, it explodes and can cause death, injury and permanent morbidity and disability.\"",
"Brown said Stern was the \"principal enabler\" in a conspiracy with two doctors for giving the \"known addict\" thousands of prescription pills.",
"Stern's attorney Krista Barth said on CNN's \"Larry King Live\" on Friday night that she thought Brown's comments were prejudicial.",
"\"I don't think that this was something that should have been stated in a public forum,\" Barth said.",
"\"I think it's contrary to the rules of professional conduct regarding trial publicity.",
"And you have to wonder why such a statement was made.\"",
"Smith, 39, was pronounced dead February 8, 2007, after being found unconscious in her hotel room at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino near Hollywood, Florida.",
"A coroner said she died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.",
"Officials said that both prescription and over-the-counter drugs were found in Smith's system, including three antidepressant or anti-anxiety drugs.",
"Human growth hormone and chloral hydrate, a sleep medication, were also found in toxicology tests, officials said.",
"CNN's Marc Balinsky contributed to this report."
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"NEW: Lawyer: Doctor had \"patient's well-being in mind,\" actions \"not criminal\"\nKhristine Eroshevich surrendered Monday and was jailed .",
"Howard K. Stern, Sandeep Kapoor, Eroshevich charged with felonies .",
"Three are accused of conspiring to furnish drugs before Smith's death ."
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"(OPRAH.com) -- It's the story that has brought dating violence into the national spotlight.",
"Police responded to a 911 call alleging domestic violence between singers Chris Brown and Rihanna last month.",
"Tyra Banks tells Oprah Winfrey about how abuse affected her.",
"Later that day, both pulled out of planned appearances at the Grammy Awards, and Brown turned himself into police.",
"He was arrested on the suspicion of making criminal threats and was released on bail.",
"Weeks later, rumors of their reconciliation were reported.",
"On March 5, 2009, Brown appeared in court, charged with two counts of felony assault.",
"His arraignment has been postponed until April 2009 while he remains free on bail.",
"Statistics say about one in three high school students have been -- or will be -- involved in an abusive relationship.",
"\"The message this story sends to teen girls and boys everywhere is disturbing, and it is also dangerous,\" Oprah Winfrey says.",
"\"We need to try to evolve from this moment ... use this as a moment to allow our society to begin to grow.\"",
"Oprah believes this story can be a teaching moment for every teen and parent.",
"\"Love doesn't hurt,\" she says.",
"\"And if a man hits you once, he will hit you again.\"",
"Oprah.com: 10 questions to ask your teens .",
"Over the past few years, talk show host Tyra Banks has interviewed both Brown and Rihanna.",
"\"Rihanna told me her parents used to argue so intensely, she used to get these headaches, these migraines that were almost not even treatable with medicine,\" Banks says.",
"\"The moment her parents separated, her migraines went away.\"",
"In his appearance on The Tyra Banks Show, Brown said he watched his mother suffer abuse from the time he was 7 years old until he was 13.",
"The abuser was not his biological father.",
"\"I treat [women] differently because I know I never want to go through the same thing or put a woman through the same thing that the person put my mom through,\" Brown told Banks.",
"When Banks first heard about the alleged incident, she says she didn't believe it -- until the police report was released.",
"\"I went back to that interview and I said, 'Oh my God, he's repeating [the cycle of abuse].'\"",
"Tyra cautions against judging Rihanna for going back to Brown.",
"\"Sometimes we hold these celebrities up to a higher standard, but we have to look at her as a human being and understand that she is no better or no different than any other girl,\" Banks says.",
"\"She is just as easily pulled into the cycle of abuse of going back.\"",
"\"I think we need to send love to both of them,\" Oprah says.",
"\"For him to be healed, and for her to be healed also.\"",
"Oprah.com: 4 ways to heal after a tragedy .",
"Banks says she knows the cycle of abuse all too well.",
"While in her 20s, Banks says she was emotionally abused.",
"\"He never hit me, but I would say there were blows to my spirit, blows to my emotional well-being every day,\" she says.",
"On the outside, Banks says no one could see the signs.",
"But behind closed doors, she says he was jealous and blamed her for his bad moods.",
"\"He was a master at being able to be happy and nice to everybody else but whispering these negative things to me,\" she says.",
"\"I'd start complaining to my friends, and they're like: 'Well, he's fine, girl.",
"He's fine with us. Everything's fine.'\"",
"Although she was one of the top 10 models in the world at the time, she says her self-esteem sunk lower and lower.",
"\"I stayed because I felt like if I left and he didn't change and didn't treat me how I felt I deserved to be treated, I was a failure,\" she says.",
"One day, Banks says she finally confronted herself.",
"\"I walked to the mirror in his bathroom.",
"He wasn't there,\" she says. \"Out loud I looked in that mirror and I said: 'Tyra, who are you?",
"What the hell are you doing? Get out of here.'\" Although Banks says she tried to leave her boyfriend many times, she managed to get sucked back into the relationship.",
"At one point, she says she turned to her mother for help.",
"\"I said: 'Mama, please, just take me.",
"Pull me out of this relationship.",
"Tell me to leave him.",
"Hole me up in your house.",
"Unplug the phones.",
"Protect me from him.'\" Her mother refused.",
"\"[She said:] 'You have to do this on your own. I will be here as somebody to support you in this.",
"But I will not tell you to leave, and I will not cut you off from him, because you'll just run out in the middle of the night and go straight back.'\"",
"Oprah.com: How to make an exit plan .",
"Dating violence doesn't just happen in Hollywood.",
"It can take place in any neighborhood -- including yours.",
"Friends say high school senior and cheerleader Charney Watt was one-of-a-kind.",
"\"She was very intelligent. She made good grades.",
"She had a spunky attitude and was very energetic,\" says Charli, a friend.",
"\"She was also a leader in her community, and being a cheerleader, you have to influence other people.",
"She influenced people at school and also in her neighborhood.",
"You know, if she [had] seen you looking sad, she would come ask you what's wrong and make sure you're okay.\"",
"On March 1, 2009, police say the 18-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, was gunned down by her ex-boyfriend.",
"Charney's ex-boyfriend Gary Daniel has been charged with her murder and has not yet entered a plea.",
"Her friends say they saw no signs that she was in an abusive relationship.",
"\"When she came to [cheerleading] practice, her personality overcame all of that,\" Charli says.",
"\"She was just herself.\" Keisha, Watt''s friend since the eighth grade, says Watt's boyfriend used to come to all of her games.",
"\"He used to come and see her cheer and come with her mom,\" she says.",
"\"We always thought he was a supporter, and he was a sweet person to her.\"",
"Now that they've had to bury their close friend, Keisha and her friends hope others will learn from Charney's experience.",
"\"We're hoping that Charney, what happened to her, people will look at it and realize that this type of situation isn't for you,\" Keisha says.Oprah.com: Meet more women who are struggling with dating violence .",
"From The Oprah Winfrey Show .",
"Subscribe to O, The Oprah Magazine for up to 75% off the newsstand price.",
"That's like getting 18 issues FREE.",
"Subscribe now! TM & © 2009 Harpo Productions, Inc. All Rights Reserved."
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"Tyra Banks: Chris Brown says he watched his mother suffer years of abuse .",
"Banks: Don't judge Rihanna harshly for going back to Brown .",
"Banks says she was emotionally abused, begged mother to make her break up ."
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"LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- He is the international superstar responsible for breathing life into the iconic comic book hero Wolverine.",
"Her movies have earned more than $2 billion worldwide, including the entire \"X-Men\" franchise.",
"Hugh Jackman emerges as Wolverine in \"X-Men Origins: Wolverine,\" which opened Friday.",
"Actor Hugh Jackman and film producer Lauren Shuler Donner recently sat down for a candid conversation about their new film, \"X-Men Origins: Wolverine.\"",
"Specifically, the pair talked about the scene in which Jackman's character is transformed from a simple mutant with bony claws that periodically protrude from the back of his hands to an invincible mutant filled with an indestructible metal called adamantium.",
"This scene represents the ultimate birth of a comic legend as the character is transformed from Logan to Wolverine.",
"Watch the scene in which Wolverine is unleashed » .",
"Hugh Jackman: I knew this was the birth of the character; this is where we see him in full flight.",
"It's called in the comic book \"berserker rage.\"",
"It's not really in the English language, but it may be now!",
"But, this idea that this complete animal [has been] unleashed, which is obviously the entire story -- this battle between the animal and human is something we all relate to.",
"Lauren Shuler Donner: There were many things he had to do in the tank, you know.",
"One of them was he had to be lowered, and then the needles had to come towards him.",
"Now, most of those were CGI, so he had to look in certain places where the needles were.",
"But, he couldn't hear [director] Gavin [Hood].",
"So they ... tried all kinds of sounds, speakers, everything. ...",
"They finally devised this toe method where, if Gavin pulled on Hugh's big toe, it meant the things are coming, the second toe is this, the last toe is rise up, very sophisticated.",
"(laughter) Jackman: I had in my head that I've got to be in much better shape -- not better shape, different shape, kind of ridiculous shape because I wanted it to be uncomfortable.",
"I wanted it to feel like I felt when I saw Robert De Niro in \"Cape Fear,\" that -- whoa, this guy is dangerous, he's powerful, he's dangerous, and he can snap at any point.",
"Donner: There's an iconic drawing of Wolverine coming out of the tank in the comics with the things popping out of him and his hair all over him in a rage, and we wanted to be that image.",
"That's the image we wanted for the fans.",
"Jackman: I was a little frightened when I watched it, like, \"Is that me?\"",
"[My wife] Deb was like, \"Hugh, this is ridiculous. I don't even know who that is.\""
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"Hugh Jackman plays Wolverine in \"X-Men Origins: Wolverine\"\nTo create the character, Jackman wanted to be in \"ridiculous shape\"\nHow to contact Jackman underwater?",
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